toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

abashed
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • Abruptly, she was abashed.†   (source)
  • Johnnie herself was dumb and abashed, now, in his presence.†   (source)
  • Miro was abashed.†   (source)
  • In this case he looked abashed and dug a ten-dollar gold piece out of his pocket, which he pitched over to her.†   (source)
  • He came walking slowly stageward, mimicking a person sneaking back into a room, relieved and abashed, and they waited for him to say something that would pay off the long tense moment and shake them with laughter and he reached the stage and lifted the dangling mike and put it to his face and it began to screech and crackle and then the lights went out again and the afterimage of Lenny's tallowy face stuck to every retina in the house, half a scared smirk across his mouth, and the baby…†   (source)
  • Razor trails off, gives the camera an abashed look.†   (source)
  • Cuthbert looked abashed.†   (source)
  • Such loveliness in living thing Frodo had never seen before nor imagined in his mind; and he was both surprised and abashed to find that he had a seat at Elrond's table among all these folk so high and fair.†   (source)
  • Cindy scrunched her face, abashed, but Claire cackled with approval.†   (source)
  • It was the smile of two men meeting accidentally in a brothel: both slightly abashed, they are at the same time glad that the feeling is mutual, and a bond of something akin to brotherhood develops between them.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Issaaia looked calm and unconcerned, but felt abashed.†   (source)
  • Then I saw the foolish, abashed expression on Wrestrum's face and relaxed.†   (source)
  • I pulled off my pinafore and sopped up as much of the puddle as I could, and then I rushed from the room, too abashed to seek out the innkeeper to arrange for his trap.†   (source)
  • Abashed, Taleswapper spoke less confidently.†   (source)
  • The old priest looked abashed.†   (source)
  • He said it defiantly, then was silent, abashed and somehow sorry he had said it.†   (source)
  • He was abashed.†   (source)
  • "Yes mam," he said in an abashed voice, "I would sher love to do that!"†   (source)
  • And the man, abashed into courtesy, found a clerk for her, and the clerk conducted them to the dark rear of the store.†   (source)
  • I lowered my eyes, abashed.†   (source)
  • Rita Skeeter didn't look remotely abashed.†   (source)
  • Riddle did not look remotely abashed; he was still staring coldly and appraisingly at Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Abashed, Edgar scratched Finch's chest and smoothed the fur over the dog's forehead.†   (source)
  • He turned away at once, but not before I saw an abashed, questioning look.†   (source)
  • She recited the law and sent the women away abashed.†   (source)
  • 'I didn't —' mumbled Harry, a little abashed, but Dumbledore cut across him.†   (source)
  • He glanced over at Theon and quickly looked away, abashed.†   (source)
  • Abashed, Robb sheathed his sword, suddenly a child again.†   (source)
  • The younger kids looked abashed, and I felt like a jerk, raining on their parade.†   (source)
  • They sounded somewhat intimidated, even abashed.†   (source)
  • He at least had the grace to look abashed.†   (source)
  • Abashed, the six students fell silent and edged away from one another.†   (source)
  • "Hello, Charlie," he said, looking appropriately abashed.†   (source)
  • At any rate this speech abashed and terrified him.†   (source)
  • 'Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.'†   (source)
  • Abashed, Sansa bit her lip and huddled down in silence.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry, Mother;" Tommen said, abashed.†   (source)
  • Robb was touched by that, Catelyn saw, but abashed as well.†   (source)
  • She turned an ugly red and glared at him and for an instant the boy looked abashed.†   (source)
  • Percy looked slightly abashed.†   (source)
  • Harry had thought the breakout from Azkaban might have humbled Umbridge a little, that she might have been abashed at the catastrophe that had occurred right under the nose of her beloved Fudge.†   (source)
  • Eragon nodded, abashed.†   (source)
  • My parents' publisher placed an abashed plea for another Amazing Amy book, and they acquiesced for a lovely fat sum.†   (source)
  • "Harry's already Apparated," Ron told a slightly abashed Seamus, after Professor Flitwick had dried himself off with a wave of his wand and set Seamus lines: "I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."†   (source)
  • "I know," he said, abashed.†   (source)
  • Hallis Mollen looked abashed.†   (source)
  • Arya felt abashed.†   (source)
  • Mum looked abashed.†   (source)
  • "Ulmer," Sam said, abashed.†   (source)
  • Gazzy gave me his sweet, abashed smile.†   (source)
  • Hodor stopped, looking abashed.†   (source)
  • He looked mildly abashed.†   (source)
  • 'Perhaps not,' said Sam abashed.†   (source)
  • When he met Bors in this magic boat of theirs, he was abashed of him, it says in the letter.†   (source)
  • Grand looked abashed, then stepped forward and drew level.†   (source)
  • Franklin Clarke looked a little abashed.†   (source)
  • Jimmy had no confidence that he could keep company with kind motives; he was abashed by them.†   (source)
  • When this happened, Pearl was stricken into silence; helpless and abashed, she appealed to Helen.†   (source)
  • And how abashed he was, facing Ellen on the morning after.†   (source)
  • At Belle Watling's sporting house," said Rhett, looking abashed.†   (source)
  • At last he stood up, waddled clumsily across the cell, dug down into the pocket of his overalls, and, with an abashed air, held out a grimy piece of bread to the skull— faced man.†   (source)
  • Then abashed and as though he had never seen the girl before he went slowly out, hanging his head over his fine clothes, and his eyes looking here and there, but never ahead.†   (source)
  • Startled, at first abashed, Charles blushed at the rebuff and then, seeing how her eyes were fastened on his sister, he smiled.†   (source)
  • [Laura is abashed beyond speech.†   (source)
  • So his keeping to himself, in some hole of a room like mine, or worse, was understandable; he never before had had to approach me abashed, owing explanations and excuses, and wasn't going to do it now.†   (source)
  • They had hushed abashed as she entered and Melanie had arisen, laughing and clutching at hairpins and flying curls from where she was crouching behind the sofa.†   (source)
  • And with that she kissed me, and burst once more into such sobbing, that I stood abashed.†   (source)
  • Of course their modesty was not fated to be long-lived, but for a moment they were abashed.†   (source)
  • He was not in the least abashed or lonely.†   (source)
  • "Damnation," Hans Castorp thought, both bewildered and abashed, "that was a regular aria!†   (source)
  • LOMAX [abashed] I didn't mean—at least— LADY BRITOMART.†   (source)
  • She waited for them to look abashed and vacant, so that she might suggest "Androcles."†   (source)
  • She pretended to be groggy with wonderment but he was not abashed.†   (source)
  • "You said the first of the week," said Carrie, greatly abashed.†   (source)
  • Gania certainly did look dreadfully abashed.†   (source)
  • "Why, yes it is," she laughed, puzzled, and again just the least bit abashed by the reality of him.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless Bella was no more abashed that she was irritated by this.†   (source)
  • "All right," said the latter, somewhat abashed, "it might be well to do it."†   (source)
  • Carrie came away wearily, somewhat more abashed for her pains.†   (source)
  • He was not at all abashed by his position.†   (source)
  • Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted.†   (source)
  • Mr. Fogg said nothing; while Passepartout, abashed, kept repeating that "it wasn't worth telling."†   (source)
  • Rawdon was rather abashed and cast down, on the other hand.†   (source)
  • Amy came in hastily, and looked rather abashed when she saw her sisters all waiting for her.†   (source)
  • She never was abashed and is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!†   (source)
  • Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.†   (source)
  • 'Am I pardoned?' he asked, with an air of half abashed gallantry.†   (source)
  • She hung her head abashed, but did not seem to think it necessary to reply.†   (source)
  • The old soldier looked as abashed as a child interrupted in his game of make-believe.†   (source)
  • 'It was only my joke,' said the friend, abashed.†   (source)
  • He was not in the least abashed as he stood before the lawyers.†   (source)
  • Mavra Kuzminichna grew abashed and confused.†   (source)
  • I was abashed at having made so great a mistake, and was glad to change the subject.†   (source)
  • Vholes," explains the client, somewhat abashed, "I had no intention to accuse you of insensibility."†   (source)
  • Mad, young gentleman," she returned so quickly that he was quite abashed.†   (source)
  • Trotwood Copperfield,' said Mr. Dick, a little abashed.†   (source)
  • He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at receiving it.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, chicken-man!' said Kim, and even the abashed Jat laughed.†   (source)
  • The policeman drew back abashed, and Kim hooted at him all down the road.†   (source)
  • Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.†   (source)
  • Volumnia, abashed again, suggests, by somebody—to advise and make arrangements.†   (source)
  • The people even like me as I go about, and make so much of me that I am quite abashed.†   (source)
  • And so, she would have heard Swann out with the utmost tranquillity had she not noticed that it was growing late, and that if he went on speaking for any length of time she would "never" as she told him with a fond smile, obstinate but slightly abashed, "get there in time for the Overture."†   (source)
  • "Monsieur!" protested the Vicomte, somewhat abashed at the way his warlike attitude had been taken by the ponderous-looking Englishman.†   (source)
  • Anne came running in presently, her face sparkling with the delight of her orchard rovings; but, abashed at finding the delight herself in the unexpected presence of a stranger, she halted confusedly inside the door.†   (source)
  • She had been even more struck with the look of the girls who followed Crick than abashed by Crick's blunt praise.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE AFTER such a scene as the last, Walter Morel was for some days abashed and ashamed, but he soon regained his old bullying indifference.†   (source)
  • Not that he was abashed.†   (source)
  • He merely sprang to the side and ran stiffly ahead for several awkward leaps, in carriage and conduct resembling an abashed country swain.†   (source)
  • The tattered man shrank back abashed.†   (source)
  • And yet we assume that the force that carries women through all these perils and hardships, stops abashed before the primnesses of our behavior for young ladies.†   (source)
  • Gerty broke off, abashed at the sound of her own eloquence, and impeded by the difficulty of giving precise expression to her vague yearning for her friend's retrieval.†   (source)
  • To one essentially such a novice in the complexities of factitious life, the abrupt transition from his former and simpler sphere to the ampler and more knowing world of a great war-ship; this might well have abashed him had there been any conceit or vanity in his composition.†   (source)
  • And, sure enough, Louise Ratterer, not to be abashed by what her brother had just said, observed: "You dance, don't you, Mr. Griffiths?"†   (source)
  • Aunt Polly, Mary, and the Harpers threw themselves upon their restored ones, smothered them with kisses and poured out thanksgivings, while poor Huck stood abashed and uncomfortable, not knowing exactly what to do or where to hide from so many unwelcoming eyes.†   (source)
  • There was an evening when Carol hoped she was going to make a play; a rehearsal during which Guy stopped looking abashed.†   (source)
  • Martin was abashed by this luxury.†   (source)
  • He had received a rebuke and a snub, but his shrewd, fox-like face looked neither abashed nor disappointed; on the contrary, a curious smile, half sarcastic and wholly satisfied, played around the corners of his thin lips.†   (source)
  • The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendor of the parlor where Miss Barry left them when she went to see about dinner.†   (source)
  • The Devil, the Statue, and Don Juan all begin to speak at once in violent protest; then stop, abashed.†   (source)
  • I was abashed how to find expression for my thanks; but she was no less abashed at the thought of hearing them; begged us to lose no time and to hold our peace, saying (very properly) that the heart of our matter was in haste and silence; and so, what with one thing and another, she had set us on the Lothian shore not far from Carriden, had shaken hands with us, and was out again at sea and rowing for Limekilns, before there was one word said either of her service or our gratitude.†   (source)
  • The rest bowed as they came in; and being more or less abashed, put on an air of extreme self-assurance.†   (source)
  • Abashed boys slunk into the rear pews and giggled, while milky little girls, up front with their mothers, self-consciously kept from turning around.†   (source)
  • They admired the diamonds and furs and frosty silverware and mahogany chairs and polished morocco sewing-boxes in shop-windows, and were abashed by the throngs in the department-stores, and were bullied by a clerk into buying too many shirts for Kennicott, and gaped at the "clever novelty perfumes—just in from New York."†   (source)
  • For there was that in Clyde's manner the instant he learned that it was due to a mistake that he had been recognized which caused even her to understand that he was hurt, abashed and disappointed.†   (source)
  • She felt abashed at the man's daring, but could only smile in answer to his engaging smirk, and say: "I need to make a living."†   (source)
  • He really expected to hear the common " Aw! go chase yourself!" in return, and was sufficiently abashed, by Carrie's silently moving away, to retreat, awkwardly grinning.†   (source)
  • Hurstwood was greatly abashed.†   (source)
  • But the sick man, though he seemed and was indifferent about it, was not angry, but only abashed, and on the whole as it were interested in what she was doing with him.†   (source)
  • Dick was clearly kicking him underneath the table; but he was not much abashed, and awaited my answer somewhat eagerly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pocket's dignity was so crushing, that I felt quite abashed, as if I myself had done something to rouse it.†   (source)
  • Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as this was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might follow.†   (source)
  • Turn off this spirit from his fountain-head; To trap him, let thy snares be planted, And him, with thee, be downward led; Then stand abashed, when thou art forced to say: A good man, through obscurest aspiration, Has still an instinct of the one true way.†   (source)
  • During the uproar, the cardinal, no less abashed than Gringoire, had retired with all his suite, under the pretext of business and vespers, without the crowd which his arrival had so deeply stirred being in the least moved by his departure.†   (source)
  • "Answer for thyself, Friar," said King Richard, something sternly; but immediately stretching out his hand to the Hermit, the latter, somewhat abashed, bent his knee, and saluted it.†   (source)
  • When Wildeve returned, a quarter of an hour later, Thomasin said simply, and in the abashed manner usual with her now, "Where is the horse, Damon?"†   (source)
  • Upon this, the two meanly dressed figures mocked and jeered at the much-abashed old dignitary, and pointed their fingers at the stain.†   (source)
  • In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours.†   (source)
  • Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.†   (source)
  • 'We'd have had a young gentleman to meet you, if we had known you were coming,' retorted Master Kidderminster, nothing abashed.†   (source)
  • Alyosha was terribly abashed.†   (source)
  • Oak went up to the door a little abashed: his mental rehearsal and the reality had had no common grounds of opening.†   (source)
  • 'I have met holy ones who would have cursed thee from hearthstone to byre,' said Kim to the abashed man.†   (source)
  • "I hope, sir," pleaded the abashed Mr. Cruncher, "that a gentleman like yourself wot I've had the honour of odd jobbing till I'm grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos so—I don't say it is, but even if it wos.†   (source)
  • 'The four elder sisters cast down their eyes as if abashed by the holy man's reproof, but Alice raised hers, and bent them mildly on the friar.†   (source)
  • Rosa, very much abashed, says, "No, if you please, my Lady!" and glances up, and glances down, and don't know where to look, but looks all the prettier.†   (source)
  • Finally, the deputies returned abashed to their constituents, pronouncing the matter too weighty to be handled, except by a council of the churches, if, indeed, it might not require a general synod.†   (source)
  • All looked abashed at this elegant speech, delivered with quite an air, and stood huddled together at a respectful distance, except two stout porters, who came up and began conveying away the baggage.†   (source)
  • I have to go and see someone …. not far from here," he added in an apologetic voice, somewhat abashed.†   (source)
  • "I crave your pardon, Deerslayer," said Judith, earnestly, more abashed than was her wont, in finding that she had in advertently made an appeal that might wound her compan ion's pride.†   (source)
  • And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table or in King William's court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither.†   (source)
  • Esther, left thus alone, stood a moment abashed, her color coming and going; then she went to Ben-Hur, and said, with a womanliness singularly sweet, "I am not better than my mother was; and, as she is gone, I pray you, O my master, let me care for my father."†   (source)
  • 'My dear Jane,' faltered my mother, a little abashed by the harsh tone of this inquiry, 'I find that the baby's eyes and Davy's are exactly alike.'†   (source)
  • Then, while Guillaume Rym, a "sage and malicious man," as Philippe de Comines puts it, watched them both with a smile of raillery and superiority, each sought his place, the cardinal quite abashed and troubled, Coppenole tranquil and haughty, and thinking, no doubt, that his title of hosier was as good as any other, after all, and that Marie of Burgundy, mother to that Marguerite whom Coppenole was to-day bestowing in marriage, would have been less afraid of the cardinal than of the…†   (source)
  • Bathsheba did not speak, and he mechanically repeated in an abashed and sad voice,— "Do you want a shepherd, ma'am?"†   (source)
  • Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors.†   (source)
  • She first felt a sort of exultation at the way in which the adventure had terminated, even though at moments between her exultations she was abashed and blushful.†   (source)
  • Louisa stood looking at the pretty modest head, as it drooped abashed before her, until it was raised again to glance at her face.†   (source)
  • The distressed girl turned her abashed look from the countenance of one of the young men to that of another, until her eye met the troubled and working features of Paul.†   (source)
  • He had had his time for female friendships too, but that was twenty years ago, and the ladies were of the rank of those with whom Young Marlow in the comedy is represented as having been familiar before he became abashed in the presence of Miss Hardcastle.†   (source)
  • It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.†   (source)
  • But the more he shot, the more he felt disgraced in the eyes of Veslovsky, who kept popping away merrily and indiscriminately, killing nothing, and not in the slightest abashed by his ill success.†   (source)
  • She wished Beth could hear him, but she did not say so, only praised him till he was quite abashed, and his grandfather came to his rescue.†   (source)
  • The Captain, with a half-guilty secret to confess, and with the prospect of a painful and stormy interview before him, entered Mr. Osborne's offices with a most dismal countenance and abashed gait, and, passing through the outer room where Mr. Chopper presided, was greeted by that functionary from his desk with a waggish air which farther discomfited him.†   (source)
  • 'If I had not had,' said Ralph, in no way abashed by the reminder, 'do you think I should have helped you?'†   (source)
  • "Likely I should refuse it," boomed Rakitin, obviously abashed, but carrying off his confusion with a swagger.†   (source)
  • They slightly thrilled and abashed her.†   (source)
  • The squatter seemed reluctant to abandon his views of the abashed girl, so easily; and before he answered to the suggestion of his wife, he turned his usual dull look along the line of the curious countenances of his boys, as if to see whether there was not one among them fit to fill the place of the deceased.†   (source)
  • Not a whit abashed by the disappointment caused by his having come in place of the old prince, Veslovsky greeted Levin gaily, claiming acquaintance with him in the past, and snatching up Grisha into the carriage, lifted him over the pointer that Stepan Arkadyevitch had brought with him.†   (source)
  • After the first movement of terror in Amelia's mind—when Rebecca's green eyes lighted upon her, and rustling in her fresh silks and brilliant ornaments, the latter tripped up with extended arms to embrace her—a feeling of anger succeeded, and from being deadly pale before, her face flushed up red, and she returned Rebecca's look after a moment with a steadiness which surprised and somewhat abashed her rival.†   (source)
  • 'He says,' replied the woman, abashed by his harshness, 'that he comes on very particular business which admits of no excuse; and I thought perhaps it might be about—'†   (source)
  • In spite of himself, he appeared abashed by my aunt's indignant tears, and came slouching out of the garden.†   (source)
  • He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fantastically trimmed dress with an expression that abashed her more than his answer, which had not a particle of his usual politeness in it.†   (source)
  • Figures stepped singly and in pairs through the doors—all walking awkwardly, and abashed, save the foremost, who wore a red jacket, and advanced with his hands in his pockets, whistling.†   (source)
  • 'What is the talk?' said Kim, abashed.†   (source)
  • They were not in the least abashed.†   (source)
  • I dare say they would have said much more about her, if they had not been abashed by the unexpected coming in of Steerforth, who, seeing me in a corner speaking with two strangers, stopped in a song he was singing, and said: 'I didn't know you were here, young Copperfield!'†   (source)
  • Jo unfolded it, and looked much abashed, for it was one of her own contributions to a paper that paid for poetry, which accounted for her sending it an occasional attempt.†   (source)
  • And now, there he sat, with the remains of a beard at least a week old encumbering his chin; a soiled and crumpled shirt-frill crouching, as it were, upon his breast, instead of standing boldly out; a demeanour so abashed and drooping, so despondent, and expressive of such humiliation, grief, and shame; that if the souls of forty unsubstantial housekeepers, all of whom had had their water cut off for non-payment of the rate, could have been concentrated in one body, that one body could…†   (source)
  • Mr. Heep was rather abashed, as most people might have been, by this explosion; which derived great additional force from the indignant manner in which my aunt afterwards moved in her chair, and shook her head as if she were making snaps or bounces at him.†   (source)
  • The officer appeared abashed, as though he understood that one might think of how many men would be missing tomorrow but ought not to speak of it.†   (source)
  • Now, Jo did not like to leave it, for Mr. Dashwood didn't suit her at all, but, under the circumstances, there was nothing for her to do but bow and walk away, looking particularly tall and dignified, as she was apt to do when nettled or abashed.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew was watching these men abashed by the Emperor's presence, and the women who were breathlessly longing to be asked to dance.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me a bold thing even to take notice that the passage looked comfortable, as I went on my way, trembling, to Mr. Creakle's presence: which so abashed me, when I was ushered into it, that I hardly saw Mrs. Creakle or Miss Creakle (who were both there, in the parlour), or anything but Mr. Creakle, a stout gentleman with a bunch of watch-chain and seals, in an arm-chair, with a tumbler and bottle beside him.†   (source)
  • Send him to the devil, I'm busy!" he shouted to Lavrushka, who went up to him not in the least abashed.†   (source)
  • I felt abashed and asked whether what he had been saying did not concern me; but he did not reply, gave me a kind look, and then we suddenly found ourselves in my bedroom where there is a double bed.†   (source)
  • He shook his head incredulously; and even more abashed, I said that though I was living with my wife as he advised, I was not living with her as her husband.†   (source)
  • Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor.†   (source)
  • While Denisov was talking to the esaul, Petya—abashed by Denisov's cold tone and supposing that it was due to the condition of his trousers—furtively tried to pull them down under his greatcoat so that no one should notice it, while maintaining as martial an air as possible.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)