ABASH in a Sentence

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For ABASH, below is one of 36 sentences:
Startled, at first abashed, Charles blushed at the rebuff and then, seeing how her eyes were fastened on his sister, he smiled.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abash
 v.  embarrass; make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  But if he recognized her meaning it failed to abash him, and he went on in the same tone: "I didn't mean to give offence; excuse me if I've spoken too plainly."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
2  not far from here, he added in an apologetic voice, somewhat abashed.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
3  He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at receiving it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
4  They were not in the least abashed.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
5  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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
6  Prince Andrew was watching these men abashed by the Emperor's presence, and the women who were breathlessly longing to be asked to dance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
7  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.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VII
8  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.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
9  Mavra Kuzminichna grew abashed and confused.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
10  Startled, at first abashed, Charles blushed at the rebuff and then, seeing how her eyes were fastened on his sister, he smiled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  And how abashed he was, facing Ellen on the morning after.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  "At Belle Watling's sporting house," said Rhett, looking abashed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
14  There was an evening when Carol hoped she was going to make a play; a rehearsal during which Guy stopped looking abashed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  The tattered man shrank back abashed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Her open admiration should not abash him at all.
2  The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy, but in reality that result was caused rather more by his worshipful awe of his unknown idol and the dread pleasure that lay in his high good fortune.
3  The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.