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How to use the word mortified in a Sentence?

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Kind of like, mortified, disgusted, that sensation that this was not right. Overall, this was very uncomfortable.

Natali Tene

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was literally pushed on top of me. And after it happened, I was just mortified and embarrassed and it had way more of an emotional impact on me than I thought it would.

Holly Madison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I definitely was not expecting to be the first one to go that night, but I was wasted, he was literally pushed on top of me. And after it happened, I was just mortified and embarrassed and it had way more of an emotional impact on me than I thought it would.

Holly Madison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. When Eliza Dushku told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized, after reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza Dushku.

Michael Weatherly.Before

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

I felt mortified. My son's already terminal, i don't have any area to risk any potential anything with Rayna Souza because I'm just, like, walking around Rayna Souza with a plastic bubble just trying to keep Rayna Souza here as long as I can.

Rayna Souza

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was absolutely mortified when I found out and the fact as well that they did not even tell me what they were doing until I was actually at court.

Alongside British

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When investigators informed me of the details this poor girl had lived through, I was absolutely mortified, but elated she had survived.

Canadian County

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I was mortified and I tried to calm things down by explaining, ‘I didn’t call anyone a Jew, I was just asking to get through,’ but by this point Mr. Haberkorn’s wife and his daughters were yelling at me, and everyone in the restaurant was looking. I had no idea they were even Jewish.

Jack Kent Cooke

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I showed up on Friday, which is tape day, i showed up to my dressing room and my name was n’t on the door. It was someone else’s name. I was walking around and everyone was kind of avoiding me. And finally, someone said, ‘ Well, when you were n’t here for dress rehearsal, Rhonda Shear kisses Henry Winkler flipped out and Rhonda Shear kisses Henry Winkler took the girl that was standing in for you, made her a Screen Actors Guild member immediately and hired her. ’ I was shocked … [ That person ] said, ‘ He’s the star. He has the power.' I was mortified. I was crying.

Rhonda Shear

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The other night, two people were doing it, if my sons were little, I would be mortified.

Catherine Bruno

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The girls are mortified, they are in a constant state of fear that their bodies are going to be exposed to a male in these settings. It’s a constant state of stress and anxiety for them.

Alliance Defending Freedom

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We were just as mortified as anyone over the events in South Carolina but that doesn't have anything to do with the Confederate flag.

Ray McBerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I really think that my relationship with my husband Kanye [ West ] really changed everything, i mean, back in the day I thought I had the best style. I look back at outfits and I'm, like, mortified.

Kim Kardashian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was mortified at what had happened, all this time, and for many, many years, I felt that this was my fault.

Janice Baker Kinney

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'd actually used the word I was trying to obscure. I was mortified by this, horrified. It is a word I loathe.

Jeremy Clarkson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For me it was amazing how great the condition of the fossil was, [But Louise] was actually quite mortified by its condition. She told me it used to be much better.

Denis Baev

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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