How to Use ignominy in a Sentence

ignominy

noun

• She had to endure the ignominy of being forced to resign.
• The ignominy of being the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No.
  — Elaine Sung, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2020
• For Aras Habib, the ignominy has come even before he has been sworn in.
  — Tamer El-Ghobashy, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Caleb Joseph will never be able to erase the ignominy of his 2016 season from the back of his baseball card.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2017
• Sure, there were the usual ignominies of the buffet line.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Inch by inch to ignominy The inches speech is a perfect fit for the role of Paterno.
  — Ted Crow, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
• Young then flicked the ball a few feet to Wilder for a completion, avoiding NFL ignominy.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• From his Gilded Age peak, Grant plunged and plunged, past mere mediocrity to ignominy.
  — David Plotz, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• Travellers to and from those countries no longer have to suffer the ignominy of flying Ryanair.
  — M.r., The Economist, 14 June 2019
• The Rockets reserves did, however, avoid the ignominy of trailing by 41 in the first and second half of the same game.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2019
• Or, worse, the ignominy of sitting next to Roogie Odor instead of playing next to him.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2021
• The first was in 1896, just three years prior to Coleman bringing ignominy upon the chilly town.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
• In one pick, fans of the worst teams in football can see the player who will lead them out of the squalor—or the one who will be the face of the team’s continued ignominy.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• The grouse here are at least spared the ignominy of being shot out of the sky by an oligarch—or David Beckham—dressed in spotless tweed.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
• That’s a kind of ignominy Cersei fought hard to protect her three children from.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 Aug. 2017
• But these are also the schools that have, in one way or another, put their fans through some public ignominy to get there.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• What should the Jazz do now, after suffering this ignominy?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• The Washington Nationals took the fast track to ignominy.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2019
• And suffered one final post-mortem ignominy by a fellow duck.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2023
• As well as the ignominy of losing the case, the judgment brings more immediate problems.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• There was also national pride to restore, after the pain and ignominy of the debt crisis.
  — Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
• The Arizona Cardinals, though, have the ignominy of making the most pointless off-season move.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• At that point, the players will be going all out to save themselves from sharing ignominy with the 2008 Detroit Lions.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 26 Aug. 2017
• Only three presidents have been impeached; Trump would be the first with the ignominy of being twice impeached.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
• Why is June given so many chances to escape, and the other, less charismatic handmaids forced to live out their days in ignominy?
  — refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
• But possibly missing the chance to draft Trevor Lawrence meant nothing to the celebrating Jets, who were thrilled to avoid the ignominy of a winless year.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
• Dallas must also live with the ignominy of finishing with a 2-4 record in the worst division in football.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2021
• In his ignominy, he's become the ruler of London's darkest corners and a prize bareknuckle boxer.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• In retrospect, Levy should have mixed in a 9-7 season to keep Buffalo from the ignominy of losing four Super Bowls in a row.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2017
• The political press has been on a recent tear of ignominy lately.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024