Sentence examples for suffering ignominy from inspiring English sources

After suffering ignominy and ridicule during his lifetime, the Irish writer Flann O'Brien is enjoying a huge revival in Britain, Ireland and the United States, thanks to the hit television series Lost.

This allows Vodafone to withdraw without suffering the ignominy of public rejection.

Blackburn has been there before, suffering the ignominy of demotion in 1999, just four years after winning the title.

Now these once glorious and vivid animals are suffering the ignominy of a slime green coating after their death.

Others associate them with suffering the ignominy of playing members of the opposite sex in school productions of dubious motivation.

They were replaced by a rejuvenated Halifax, back in the big time after suffering the ignominy of relegation from the Football League themselves.

Clare Wood and Monique Javer both lost in straight sets in the opening round, Javer suffering the ignominy of a double bagel (she would be in good company come the end of the women's event).

They have made a mixed start in the RaboDirect Pro 12 – suffering the ignominy of becoming the first team to lose to Zebre – and they have made little impact in Europe since winning the Amlin Challenge Cup in 2010.

And in their second innings the tourists lost the hapless Mark Vermeulen to the last ball of James Anderson's opening over (the tall opener thus completing a pair in the space of just under three hours, not quite suffering the ignominy of the fastest in Tests but close).

Photograph: Jo Hale/Getty It was reported last week that Marilyn Manson is suffering the ignominy of not only being sued by ex-bandmate Madonna Wayne Gacy Stephenn to his mother) over unpaid wages, but for the more specific accusations that said money was wasted on such must-have domestic items as Eva Braun's handbag.

Possibly it was supporters of Köln's arch-rivals Fortuna Düsseldorf (currently suffering the ignominy of having to vacate their stadium to make room for the Eurovision Song Contest, incidentally), a jealous nanny goat, or another billy goat who fancied a shot at stardom.