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How to use shames in a sentence

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The modernised look of this town in embryo is increased by a hotel which shames many establishments of the sort found in large commercial towns.
When she insults Miss Bates at Box Hill, Mr. Knightley's reprimand really shames her.
Secret shames are divulged delicately, drawing viewers into the lives of the characters.
This is an irony which shames us in the presence of Allah, the Almighty and most worthy of praise.
It's very much a book about a man remembering being a child, and it's very much about a man remembering the shames of being a child.
We come from very little, and I think that shames my family.
At her wedding, Claudio shames her by saying she is unfaithful.
When it is forced into the public gaze, we react in a way that shames us.
They acted in a way which shames and embarrasses us as Europeans and democrats.
A cracker bus driver refuses to let him aboard, and our hero coolly spins a yarn about being a wounded veteran of the Normandy landings which shames the man into submission.
On the platform was a small table, and the rabbi, the president, the shames and a trosti were sitting there playing a noisy, heated game of pinochle.
Those that are coming from Canada, it shames me as a Canadian to have those attributed to our nation, to individuals.
We have had our fair share of national scandals and shames, and these have been terrible lessons to learn.
It also shames FIFA, which has failed to denounce it in the clearest terms.
It is a scandal that shames the good name of noble Limerick.
When will we profess our shames, diagnose our ills, write out our wrongs?
We see this in his excesses — not merely the prolificacy of his output, but the outrageousness of his characters' offenses, their deeds, appetites, shames and confessions.
Example has two good effects: it inspires others to seek betterment and it shames them into avoiding errors of which the person in authority would disapprove.
All of this shames an already discredited institution.
This silent human rights crisis shames our world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes.
The name of her sister Drusilla had been already stained with a thousand shames.
The faith of little children, how it shames us poor worldlings!
Amid all the shames and shadows of that life there will always lie the ray of her perfect honesty.
Here have I found that which shames and bankrupts the Ideal!
It shames our nation that we still have to go through this with these bigoted numbskulls.
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth, and the king certainly wasn't anything more than an average man, if he was up that high.
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