How to Use indignity in a Sentence

indignity

noun

• The indignity of it all was too much to bear.
• He suffered the indignity of being forced to leave the courtroom.
• He remembers all the indignities he had to suffer in the early years of his career.
• We must endure the indignities of growing old.
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all — just be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all – just, be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
• In that time, he’s learned how to survive, and reframe, some of the indignities of life on the road.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2023
• For many in the city, the water is just one more indignity.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• Amy Schumer has joked about the indignity of being pregnant at the same time as Meghan Markle.
  — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
• And, in the final indignity, Williams threw down a vicious dunk off a Young lob.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• The worst indignity: His boss was one of the best drummers ever.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
• Trump was spared the indignity of being handcuffed, perp walked or placed in a cell.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Mike really does have to bear the indignity of riding in the trunk.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
• Hani asked about his child, and the others enduring the mounting indignities of the war.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The customs have evolved, but the sacrifices and indignities have been there all along.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• So one of them keeps a tongue as an act of reverence and kindness to the body that is still going to go through a lot of indignities.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• The final indignity lies in the fact that the women were all but forgotten.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022
• It’s a private indignity, but even worse than the shove, or losing out on his own plans to woo Matsson.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
• Their you-can’t-do-that indignity would be priceless. Lock them out.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2022
• The building suffered damage in the two world wars, and then suffered the indignity of being a sports shop and tourism offices.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• By the time Wilmer Flores hammered a mid-40s slider by one-time third baseman Batten in the ninth, the indignity of the day felt complete.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
• The wail of his abused spirit seems to well up subtly in his eyes, the weight of endured indignities seems to bow his shoulders and furrow his brow.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• Still, even friends and family aren’t immune to the indignities of waiting in line.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• More often, the all-time greats have to accept some level of indignity in their final act.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• Then the fungus slowly feeds on the host, sprouting new spores throughout the body as one final indignity.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
• The fungus slowly feeds on the host, sprouting new spores throughout the body as one final indignity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• But Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, handles even the indignity of having one's spike heel sink into the soft mud with grace.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2022
• That also meant to Mr. Magubane showing the daily indignities of apartheid.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Then Merchant brought out the printer (a symbol of the indignities of office life which only works with Hewlett-Packard’s own overpriced ink) and placed it on a chair.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The hollow sound of the cell door, the indignity of his mistreatment by the guards and the haunting void of hopelessness claws at his soul when the lights are out, even years after his release.
  — Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024