Mortification in example sentence

So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.

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– sent his popularity soaring, to the mortification of many Republican leaders.

She tried, by way of mortification, to eat nothing a whole day.

"Indeed, I can easily comprehend the mortification you must have felt in having one so self-willed to deal with," returned the surgeon, glancing his eyes reproachfully at his comrade.

'Ay, and a great deal handsomer than you, sister,' says Robin, 'and that's your mortification.''Well, well, that is not the question,' says his sister; 'that girl is well enough, and she knows it well enough; she need not be told of it to make her vain.'

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