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How to use abase in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word abase? Here are some examples.

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Thus, he enters the dining room, ready to abase himself because he disdains everyone else.
Heand his lawyers will need to seriously abase themselves before the Committee if he's going to escape a similar fate.
Come fall, the rich and the powerful abase themselves for a seat in the owner's box.
And please let me, or any other liberal, know if there is anything else we can do to abase ourselves.
One begins to wonder perversely whether the artist will soon utterly abase herself before our eyes.
They can lapse into a forgetful toadyism, and abase themselves before their historical oppressors.
How easily an ancient civilization can be made to abase itself completely.
To use the power of the majority to cholerically abase and degrade such dissenters, however mistaken they may seem to be, will ultimately be counterproductive.
How these gestures will be interpreted by the electorate is not clear, but it is clear that they will do anything, even abase themselves in public, to gain power.
Eleven million people took to the streets last weekend to show their solidarity in the face of terror, and two days later voted to abase themselves before it.
It was made for MGM's British division and cast Christie as the beleaguered heroine and Bates, Peter Finch, and Terence Stamp as the trio of men who try to worship, abase, or simply possess her.
Mary's humble song of joy, the Magnificat, recalls to our minds the infinite generosity of the Lord towards those who become like children towards those who abase themselves and are sincerely aware that they are nothing.
Even Callisthenes, historian and nephew of Aristotle, whose ostentatious flattery had perhaps encouraged Alexander to see himself in the role of a god, refused to abase himself.
The next thing, a penguin will walk in here, tip his top hat, and abase himself while he mutters obsequiously in penguinese.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Can you behold every one that is proud, and abase him, and bind their faces in secret?
He saw a way to hurt her, to abase her pride, and cut her to the very soul with shame.
Commander of the faithful, abase not yourself to the meanness of your slave.
We have all so much reason to abase ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes!
He was so happy that he wanted to abase himself before some one.
You see, I abase myself, I abase myself of my own free will.
But we have a great many who have helped to abase their classes.
Each gets what it desires, but the great state must learn to abase itself.
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