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How to use put to shame in a sentence

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For it is in this crucible of learning and study that all previous achievements of civilisation will be put to shame.
She, and the events of the past few days in London, put to shame the ludicrous, immature black-clothed rebels without a cause.
Continuing her work at breakneck speed, the lady can put to shame any high-flying workaholic.
If only Thou hadst sent us a messenger, we should certainly have followed Thy Signs before we were humbled and put to shame.
He put to shame a number of people I met who were nowhere near as talented.
Surely slapdash American engineering will be put to shame by the inventive perfectionism of the German Tüftler, car folk mutter.
The mega arches erected at various points in the city might have put to shame even the political parties that are known for their ostentatious celebrations.
He was not infrequently put to shame by his roommate's work ethic.
They put to shame the instant rice and curry we'd been subsisting on.
Yes, England is put to shame by Singapore.
Your feelings will be hurt because you feel you were put to shame.
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
The words chosen falsify what really is the case in a way that, in terms of cynical demagogy, would put to shame the ideologues both of the Third Reich and of Stalinism.
For it says in scripture: 'Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame.
According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
Or were they both put to shame by Camilla Cavendish's calm demeanour?
These, free to all, once put to shame many a country richer than Cuba.
Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil.
Examples from Classical Literature
These gigantic truths retained in view, would put to shame the littleness of their dwarfish morality.
The result was a battle royal that might have put to shame two Bengal tigers.
The opposers were put to shame, and ever since has that meeting-house been free.
And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, insulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
These were the ambitious youths of the race, at work with an earnestness that put to shame the conventional student life of most educational institutions.
But all of them have been put to shame by stunt driver Alastair Moffatt who broke the Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel parking in reverse.
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