Sentence examples for mortifying experiences from inspiring English sources

The most mortifying experiences have often involved the Chinese grain-alcohol baijiu, about which the only good thing to say is that every glass tastes better than the last.

We all have mortifying experiences constantly that we compartmentalize, and my way of feeling better happens to be saying, Omigod guys, did you hear what happened to me today?" Routine debasement?

Costa endured the mortifying experience for someone of his machismo of being taunted with chants for his former manager when he made a long, slow angular walk to the bench after being substituted 14 minutes from time.

Sutherland's boycotting stems from the "mortifying" experience of watching himself in 1986 coming-of-age movie Stand By Me.  "I had a girlfriend and we went to the cast and crew screening and I had a very specific idea of what I wanted to do with the character," he told Ross.

In other words -- and I speak from mortifying experience -- there is probably a disconnect between your outside self and your inside self; the more people think the outside one is running the show, the more you need to end this particular show.

Everyone stuffs up now and then and everyone has at least one mortifying experience they can recount.

It is a mortifying, soul-scarring experience and sooner or later, it happens to everyone who stalks (to some more often than others).

For Mr. Rosenbaum, the experience was mortifying.

At one gathering, he pleaded with audiences not to film the show, describing the experience as mortifying.

Almost a month after she stepped into the witness box and admitted taking cocaine and smoking cannabis, Nigella Lawson has used her first television interview to describe the experience as "mortifying", to attack the English legal system and to insist that her "only desire" throughout the fraud trial of two former personal assistants was to protect her children.

Benedict Cumberbatch has urged fans not to film his performance as Hamlet, describing the experience of it as "mortifying".