Sentence examples for Mortified from inspiring English sources

Mortified, I looked in the mirror and conceded that it was a bit big.

My mother, born and raised in Ghana, was mortified.

Organisers of the One Young World summit, an annual gathering of "the brightest young people from around the world" being staged in Africa for the first time, were visibly mortified.

To the mortified disbelief of their biggest attendance of the season, Cardiff's players were even worse than in their recent 4-0 defeat at home to Hull.

When I mentioned her name, the receptionist looked mortified.

But the winner of this particularly unedifying battle has to be Andrew Strauss, who thought Sky had turned the microphones off before Nick Knight asked for his opinion of Kevin Pietersen and declared himself "mortified and profusely sorry" after his explicit response was broadcast worldwide.

Yet of the 3,000 people who visited the gallery during the experiment, the majority are likely to be left mortified by the unveiling of the fake – only 10% guessed correctly.

So we learned of Miliband shutting himself in a hotel room, mortified by his failure to remember the bit about the deficit in his speech to last autumn's Labour party conference.

He wrote to staff that he was mortified by the way in which some of his comments were misinterpreted.

Kath Viner replies:  @Jonas77 - I have to admit I'm a little mortified by 'soccer' but it's a term universally understood!

"Put it in the carton!" Jean is mortified.