Sentence examples for Diminish me from inspiring English sources

And then the first bruises spread across the first knees, as the first humans whispered the first prayers: Diminish me until I can bear it.

O'Reilly contends that someone -- he would not say who -- was paid to leak the footage "in an attempt to demean and diminish me...

I had to watch Cosby make jokes and attempt to degrade and diminish me, while his lawyers belittled and sneered at me.

And I said: 'I'm missing a dollar.' They said: 'Oh no, baby girl,' everything to shrink me, to diminish me – 'Oh no, sweetie pie, oh no honey, no, no.' I said: 'OK, I'll count again.'" She mimes the action of counting bills, explaining that the whole process would typically take hours – and of course she eventually got her dollar.

During the leadership race in 2011, she wanted very much not to be known only as the lesbian kickboxer (the other candidates were all defined by their jobs): "It seemed it was done to diminish me, and it was the only thing anyone knew about me".

I overcame my fear and said to my colleague, "You're not going to dismiss and diminish me.

She said the speculation had "diminished him and diminished me".

"Every word of Lila's diminished me," Elena says.

John Donne reminds us that "any man's death diminishes me".

Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind.

"The lab didn't make me a better doctor, and it diminished me as a human being," he wrote.