How to Use mortification in a Sentence

mortification

noun

• This is not a movie for people who’d just as soon forget their own teenage mortifications.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
• That said, your obvious mortification should have served to prove that instinct wrong.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• No one except a flagellant likes bad news, and trustees aren’t known for self-mortification with whips, chains, and tail pipes.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2021
• Why would my deep mortification over a trivial workplace incident persist for so long?
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• Liam, 29-year-old Rob learns to her mortification, is fresh out of high school and roughly 19 years old.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2020
• Sylvie saves everyone from further mortification by picking up the check.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
• The role play, designed to flip that polarity, has forced the white partners to look at color and see it deeply, even at the risk of mortification.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• Less than three years later, they had been subjected to a ritual mortification.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• That’s when my cheeks started to burn; mortification saturated my body.
  — Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• As if unable to resist her own mortification, Leonora asks if the bed is comfortable.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• This man who wanted to kill himself has found cosmic purpose in the bodily mortification required to conclude his quest.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• What form mortification should take, though, wasn’t clear, and the attempt to free the self of all its needs except the need for God can today look like masochism or mayhem.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Whetstone said the power was with the poster and encouraged her mother to be remorseful, express mortification with her actions and work to make amends.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• Then and now, the expressions on their faces reminded of the one on my sister’s when our mom used to correct our friends’ grammar or manners—mortification with a side of loathing.
  — Elisabeth Egan, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2017
• The past is no longer needed to provide periodic mortification.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• For my colleague Sophie Gilbert, the author’s depiction of mortification stood out the most.
  — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
• The most delightful of all mortifications is the idea that life, as Carl Jung said, really does begin at 40.
  — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Your book is dealing with that too, this mortification of the flesh and Matrix-y refusal to engage with the body, denying the kids are going to find ways to make out in the bushes.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• To enable him to feel this guilt in his heart, and not merely exhibit all the exterior signs of mortification and remorse as a reaction to public pressure.
  — Joshua Cohen, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2017
• Hong again employs the long table-time takes that have witnessed the mortification of so many drunken characters, this time skewering Donghwa.
  — Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
• At a time when the daily news cycle reliably delivers a fresh source of mortification for most Americans, some moments of shame are stinging and acute.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 July 2020
• There’s mortification, bewilderment, klutzy desire and sometimes, between rounds of beer pong, the stirrings of self-discovery.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• To Eminem’s eternal mortification, promise — and American hope — are what this film is really all about.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023
• The cringing mortifications and unsettling unreality make the series a tough sit.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
• Now fully convinced of Broadwater’s innocence, Sebold looks back on the entire episode with deep mortification.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
• The prior decade had been one of stage-shaking triumphs, personal nightmares, various degrees of mortification, and now, a chance at possible redemption.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
• Instead, every new Drake project is a buffet of humiliation, mortification, and self-serving delusion.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 18 May 2026
• Both Bowen and Burrell have teens of their own – three boys and two girls, respectively – and are far too familiar with the typical parent-teen mortification dilemma.
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 9 May 2026
• With its mortifications and sense of worldwide communion, the World Cup—which begins on June 14th—is a kind of global religion.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Miss Manners does, on occasion, supply responses which, though faultlessly polite, cause an offender to explode in a burst of mortification and apology.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022