ABASE in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for ABASE, such as:

1. He refused to abase himself in the eyes of others.
2. His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.
3. The president is not willing to abase himself before the nation.
4. Vronsky felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own falsehood.
5. 'I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABASE
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abase
 v.  humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem
Classic Sentence:
1  'I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  Go on; cease not to throw all into confusion with thy terrors, to exalt the strength of a twice vanquished race, and abase the arms of Latinus before it.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
3  She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  Vronsky felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own falsehood.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
6  The wallowing in private emotion, the utter abasement of his manly self, seemed to lend him a second nature, cold, almost visionary, business-clever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
7  The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, which contains an idea of torture and abasement.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
8  To such abasement were they brought in four days' time by what was in reality only a half-defeat.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
9  His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
10  As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
11  But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
12  Civilized people, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or bad fortune of a captain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
13  She could never have explained the chain of thought that made her smile; but the last link in it was that her husband, in exalting his brother and abasing himself, was not quite sincere.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 3
14  He cowered in the shadow of the thought, abasing himself in the awe of God Who had made all things and all men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  The president is not willing to abase himself before the nation.
2  He refused to abase himself in the eyes of others.
3  Defeated, Queen Zenobia was forced to abase herself before the conquering Romans, who made her march in chains before the emperor in the procession celebrating his triumph.