Shameful in example sentence

For example, imagine a passage from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:" "The whole engagement lasted above twelve hours, till the graduate retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."

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And one of the most famous statements he had in his speech was, "Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down."

It was a shameful thing for him to carry the rest of his life.

But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, shameful.

All we really need to do is look at this issue as the urgent, shameful issue that it is.

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