mortify

How To Use mortify In A Sentence

• How do you quantify the value of these mortifying but essential experiences? Times, Sunday Times
• In public calamites, when a general drought appears, and cruel wars, or contagious maladies come, we humble ourselves before the power that sent them, and mortify ourselves by abstinence. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
• Failure that is so mortifying and so devastating that it makes you try to become invisible.
• The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
• ‘Yeah… it's mortifying to know what happened to him’, Maria remarked.
• But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• 'Yes,' she replied, 'but such as mortify me as much as they must pain you. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
• Life could not get any better for Giants fans, which will mortify Giants fans. New York Giants 31 Dallas Cowboys 14 - as it happened!
• In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.