How to Use humiliating in a Sentence

humiliating

adjective
  • The humiliating days of the state’s last big budget bust weren’t that long ago.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 2 Dec. 2019
  • There’s a lot in there that could have been very humiliating—for myself, too.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • The whole thing was humiliating, getting beaten up by a bunch of teen-agers on my own street.
    — Mohammed Hanif, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Every once in a while, some big-time school gets a humiliating lesson about hubris.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Miss Manners begs you not to hang on to this humiliating idea.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The loss served as a wake-up call for the Packers, who haven’t lost since that humiliating game.
    — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But the most humiliating atonement often came in the form of a public walk of shame.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
  • Shanahan said the season could have gone one of two ways after a humiliating loss like that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The rest of the season depends on how the defense moves from a humiliating loss.
    — al, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Which is the most humiliating story of all?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • He was too fried from holding a bucket in the air and humiliating Jeff.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Never has such a great band gone out with such a humiliating disaster.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Not with a life free of addiction but with a frankly humiliating Zyn habit.
    — Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • After that humiliating display, the women party a bit and get off the boat the next day.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Ah Sahm suffered a humiliating defeat and was kicked out of his tong for his failure.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The party will aim to avoid such a humiliating public defeat in the future.
    — Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
  • The larvae of the beetle genus Epomis are rather more active in humiliating frogs.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Derek threatened to release humiliating recordings of me should his demand for the story to be spiked not be met.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • After the humiliating loss, Democrats vowed to change.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Legette had to leap on the ball to keep the play at the humiliating level and not catastrophic.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The goal is to talk oneself onto victory’s side even in the wake of a humiliating defeat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Both teams had suffered a humiliating loss at Ohio State the year before.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2019
  • While humiliating, Biden kept his smile on and pushed back, saying only God could force him out of the race.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024
  • Alas, the power of prayer once again failed to deliver—two days later, the wall had turned into a humiliating cave.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2019
  • Not when the meltdown is that complete, that historic, that humiliating.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
  • And, of course, everybody's favorite - the humiliating kick in the crotch.
    — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Or begging for an extension, both of which are humiliating.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Trump has made sport of publicly humiliating Sessions to the point that Sessions has pushed back at times.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • To steal a line from the The Police, a game was a humiliating kick in the crotch for the Pistons.
    — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2019

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