How To Use Embarrass In A Sentence

Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
The question was tinged with a touch of sarcasm that made her embarrassed flush renew its bright shade and caused her to clench her fists.
The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
Rebecca was too embarrassed to reply, but he took her silence as an affirmative.
It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award.

What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me.
Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music. The Sun
He didn't even have the grace to look embarrassed.
They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
Being caught in the middle of someone else's family argument is hideous and embarrassing.
So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
Lori gets embarrassed if we ask her to sing.
He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
We have every reason to remain indignant, disgusted, embarrassed and angry about this fact, but no room anymore whatsoever to feign surprise. The CNN estimate of the Searchlight Rally. | RedState
This will make you laugh out loud - and cringe with embarrassment. The Sun
From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
She caught his embarrassment off him, a flushing sickness that left them avoiding each other's eyes. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The Opposition was also anxious to embarrass the Government, and to trap it within its own latent inconsistencies.
She seemed embarrassed for a moment but quickly recovered her poise.
Though I was on friendlier, more relaxed and affectionate terms with my fellow western-New Yorker John Gardner, who'd published an early short story of mine titled "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" in his literary magazine "MSS" -- and who regarded me, somewhat embarrassingly, as a "major American writer" -- like himself -- it can't be said that John Gardner was a mentor of mine either. Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine
Watching their hand-holding shadows, she was embarrassed at being dressed for church.
Am I the only one who's embarrassed to admit that I don't trust that every guy with a card board sign at the freeway off ramp is really a veteran? Senator: 131,000 homeless vets a 'disgrace'
He drinks too much at dinner and makes an embarrassing comment in their company. The Times Literary Supplement
It was an embarrassing gaffe by any standards. Times, Sunday Times
There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
“Aussie slang: drongo – a stupid, inept, awkward or embarrassing person, a dimwit or slow-witted person” A Dumbass By Any Other Name | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!
Last year, the lights were not removed until March, occasioning embarrassment for both the Chamber and the Council.
Plimer has made something of a career out of baiting Christians, though his antics have proved an embarrassment even to some of his fellow sceptics.
He's embarrassed to be receiving public assistance.
If I'm out in public with a woman who is doing her best to embarrass or humiliate me, I'll walk away.
They wolf-whistled at me, and I was so embarrassed I tripped up.
It's honestly embarrassing to listen to, but one should refrain from calling Arrington a brown-noser because who knows? Dan Snyder Mounts Charm Offensive Many Years Too Late
Despite all the talk of precision bombing and surgical strikes, ‘collateral damage’ is reaching an embarrassing level.
And I was really embarrassed about how grotesque it looked. The Sun
The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
Because to be dribbling drunk in front of a sober person is simply too embarrassing. Times, Sunday Times
She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.
She rubbed at her eyes with it, embarrassed to have lost control in such a manner.
She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.
The guy should just resign already, before he embarrasses his party any more.
But you are a little bit embarrassed. The Sun
They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
They slapped the cheeks of their buttocks and made facial parodies that I found embarrassing.
During the war in the Crimea, the thinness of the British ranks soon became an embarrassment.
I often feel embarrassed by 400 away fans outsinging 5,000 home fans, but what can I do about it? Undefined
These include agoraphobia, the opposite of claustrophobia, when sufferers fear public situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing or where help will not be at hand in the event of a panic attack.
She is embarrassed by everything and accordingly cursed in her ownership of Theo, a tricky little shih-tzu.
But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.
The former waitress is now a stay-at-home mum and is unable to return to work as she is too embarrassed to explain her condition to employers. The Sun
He would not be able to live down the embarrassment in the event of someone telephoning him, as it was he who proposed the motion at committee to ban mobiles.
“I’m not a blinker,” I lie, mostly because it’s embarrassing to be called a blinker. Rules for Secret Keeping
Suck up the embarrassment ; tell the truth, we decided.
The South at one time was viewed as the cultural backwater of the nation, both as an economic liability and a social embarrassment.
Embarrassing yourself in public does not come under the category of self-victimisation. 12.
The most embarrassing moment to realize that there is a tongue-twister in the prayer is when you say it aloud for the first time in worship, and the whole congregation snickers.
Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference. Camilla
Telling your boss may put him in an embarrassing situation. Times, Sunday Times
When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
He was always careful to avoid embarrassment.
A day later, Palin elaborated on her support in a race that proved embarrassing to the GOP establishment. Sarah Palin's Election Scorecard
My mother's presence made the situation even more embarrassing.
So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
My lips parted in my confusion, and I stuttered a bit, embarrassingly, in my need to comprehend exactly what it was he was saying, ‘W-what?’
The deletions went beyond the typical commercially sensitive information, to embarrassing findings that the company didn't want released.
But dads are supposed to be a bit embarrassing. The Sun
To the long-running, uncomfortable faux lovers 'quarrels with Simon Cowell and his equally embarrassing interviews with the singers, he has now added an arsenal of odd behaviors, ranging from petulant snits to flighty overexuberance. It's time for producers to fix 'American Idol,' and here's how
His bad table manners embarrassed her.
In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
It was so stupid, so frustrating, so embarrassingly moronic, that it made her want to tear her hair out.
The spectacle of the former naval officers washing their dirty linen in public was distinctly embarrassing.
Although tradition suggests that young Chinese women be modest, no signs of embarrassment or shyness can be read on the waitresses' faces.
All this fuss has been a bit embarrassing. Times, Sunday Times
It embarrassed her to meet strange men in the corridor at night.
I smiled, a little embarrassed of my lame story.
Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment.
If anyone would like to email me with their awkward or embarrassing moments, I can post them here anonymously.
While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant.
If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
Mary was so embarrassed. She could only hide her face in shame.
Lori gets embarrassed if we ask her to sing.
These pet owners belong in the doghouse after taking these embarrassing snaps. The Sun
Asked if he is ever embarrassed at being labeled a junkman, Scudamore notes that "it's not the sexiest business, but my family and friends are proud of what I've achieved. Dan Dorfman: The Junkman Cometh
You could tell from his body language that he was very embarrassed.
I found the whole evening intensely embarrassing.
I felt embarrassed and uncomfortable. Times, Sunday Times
He was embarrassed about the nature of his illness and reluctant to discuss his bowel function with anyone, especially young women.
It felt self-indulgent and a bit embarrassing.
He looks a tad constipated to me, that or he has just emitted built-up gas and is clenching his carpentered cuspids in embarrassment.
The assaulted 20 year old woman was standing nearby in tears, still shook up and embarrassed after the incident.
Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity, in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
But it does make it very embarrassing when you discover you're not good at things. Times, Sunday Times
He looked embarrassed for a moment, then quickly regained his poise.
Lor, feeling a little embarrassed about confessing something like that, turned away from Kite and stared at her current work of bandaging.
To avoid embarrassment an assistant would call his mobile phone as soon as he closed his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
If the someone davens too quickly, do not admonish him in the middle of the davening and embarrass him. Hirhurim - Musings
On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bushs obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or because of speculative or abstract fears. OpEdNews - Quicklink: NYT OP ED: Did They Miss the Memo?
Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
He felt a flush of embarrassed panic.
We are happy to clarify the position and apologise for the error and any embarrassment caused. Times, Sunday Times
Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination.
Since this has happened I have become embarrassed about what I thought to be a practical, sensible coin.
Her cheeks felt hot with embarrassment, but when she looked at her new husband, she saw that his face only glowed with his love for her.
The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
Being seated, she proceeded, still with an air of hurry and embarrassment, to open her cabas, to take out her books; and, while I was waiting for her to look up, in order to make out her identity — for, shortsighted as I was, I had not recognized her at her entrance — Mdlle. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland, Barbarossa
Police acknowledge that they may cause embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
In my next scene, I have to dance the hornpipe towards Basil, leading a line of children some of whom are, embarrassingly, as tall as me.
Then, the movement kind of fizzled out from embarrassment. Think Progress » CPAC Speakers Bash Obama’s Use Of A Teleprompter — While Standing In Front Of A Teleprompter
I felt embarrassed and uncomfortable. Times, Sunday Times
Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest.
When it came to discussing facts, she seemed to obfuscate the issue (Sarah, if you're reading this, don't be embarrassed to look up "obfuscate"). Lloyd Garver: Sarah Palin: American Idol?
Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.
Yet there will still embarrassingly long blackouts for the audience to fidget through.
Came away with tummy nicely full (hope no-one noticed me in embarrassingly close proximity to the mini-pavlovas for much of the evening!) and a heart newly inspired. Kakiseni at Alexis
However, such a relationship requires patient treatment: the young can be bored, the oldsters embarrassed.
Lan shut his eyes tight, sinking his head down a little in embarrassment and shyness.
Ariel tried to control the embarrassed flush that rose in her cheeks.
The failure to bring broadband to the countryside has been an embarrassment for the government. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, all major networks signed on to the war effort with embarrassingly little resistance, the First Amendment taking second place to their fear of public excoriation by the President.
The tone is established early on; broad strokes of unbridled praise for friends, co-workers and pets, a breathless, accelerative pace and an embarrassment of exclamation marks.
The embarrassed nomes stood around in a circle.
As nothing else happened and everything quieted down again, the man put away his gun, looking quite embarrassed, but he soon regained his usual sedateness.
My mother's presence made the situation even more embarrassing.
felt tongue-tied with embarrassment
Of all my second viewing fluctuations, I'm most pleased to say that the cast entire fares much better when not jumping off the screen like flimsy cardboard cutouts, which is to say that I no longer feel so ungodly embarrassed for the lot of them. Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing
I imagine it is very embarrassing for them to be found out for being so secretive.
The Duke tried to appear unconcerned, but both he and his wife were so evidently embarrassed that they won the sympathy of their fellow passengers. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
He had a tendency toward hero worship and often gushed embarrassingly in correspondence with his heroes.
Depression is seen by many as something shameful or embarrassing, and it's very easy to internalize that attitude.
Every one of these embarrassing digressions from a pure focus on gun rights drives away more and more people who don’t agree with the position being pandered to. The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
An embarrassed Steil opened his antediluvian Hotpoint refrigerator and poured water into two discarded Classic Coke cans. OUTCAST
Prominent anti-abortion activists in the party had opposed the resolution, because it might prove embarrassing.
America in the 30s boasted an active and unembarrassed left.
Kitted out in a gown and mortar board in University College Cork in May 2002, Keane said he felt ‘slightly embarrassed in front of the other people getting doctorates‘.
Now the congressmen are embarrassed and are coming up with all kinds of lame excuses to explain why they were there.
He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham Woodstock
Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, asked if the government had been embarrassed at being "chastised" by the EU and pointed out that ministers have not said where the cuts would fall. Epolitix News
The court heard that she was ashamed and embarrassed and realises things are over with the dad. The Sun
Finally, to avoid any further embarrassment, Aryan took out his credit card and did the needful.
Since that moment, the football gods punished the team's rodomontade with injuries, embarrassment, and a 2000 flameout.
She can make you laugh, nod your head in agreement or cringe with embarrassment. The Sun
But even so, I'm pleased and flattered, and very slightly embarrassed.
I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner.
Otherwise it'd be the most embarrassing thing ever, you know.
We spend most of the year hiding from the cold, we are not that comfortable in our bodies, we're reserved, polite, easily embarrassed and we just lack a kind of hungriness and fundamental drive that you need to do consistently well in sport, especially at today's level .... Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
Wearing the bracelet/anklet is a punishment, one should be embarrassed to wear one. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Lindsay Lohan Shows Off Her SCRAM Bracelet
He embarrassed me with a difficult question.
‘I'm Emma,’ said I, feeling the grip of nauseous embarrassment washing over me.
And the embarrassing is that a considerable number of auction sales phase of the so-called "star property" to live in when broken, complaints, disputes followed.
Sex - particularly sexual disease linked to prostitution - was an acutely embarrassing subject to any respectable Victorian woman.
But the thought of anyone wanting my autograph is too overwhelming for me to really comprehend, so it pushes me to being more embarrassed than anything. Archive 2009-07-01
What was at stake was acute government embarrassment.
I'm a little embarrassed to say that I simply can't remember the environment variable that I need to set in order to remove what I call "stale" network adapters in Device Manager. Site Home
Another, who is in a five-year relationship, burns with embarrassment if she finds her feet sticking out of the covers when they're in bed together, because she thinks they're gnarly.
When someone asks me what business I am in I become embarrassed stutter and stammer.
As was the manner of his time, his relations with his innumerable mistresses were almost universally cordial, even when disembarrassing himself of them.
an embarrassment of riches
Many complained about people who take untrained, ill-behaved animals to public events as well as about people who chuckle a little embarrassed but nothing more when their dogs lunge at people while on walks or leap up on strangers and do that "if it's vertical I'll try to breed with it" behavior against everyone's legs. Pet Talk: Some people hate dogs, in no uncertain terms
When my wife worked for an important Napa Valley winery, at all parties involving management, winery worker snad vineyard workers, there was very little social interaction between the three groups and any attempt to break the ice would have embarrassed just about everybody. Bubba�s
The next I hear, she has been spotted dining alone, unembarrassed, in an unfussy brasserie I had suggested.
I was too embarrassed to look at him when I clicked the light off and said goodnight.
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
Every one of these groups is embarrassed by this "amateurism," and, for the sake of their public image in a world of non-computer people, they all attempt to look as stern and formal and impressive as possible. The Hacker Crackdown
I was so embarrassed that I had to buy those macadamias by way of apology.
During the 2001 general election he embarrassed his party by claiming it would cut taxes by 20 billion. Times, Sunday Times
But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.
She lowered her lashes in sudden embarrassment.
Work includes pastels by a mad woman from Taree, photographs by someone who really shouldn't be seen in the nude, and a guy who is so past his prime it's just embarrassing.
Because their bodies begin to grow so rapidly during adolescence, teenagers often feel awkward, self-conscious, uncoordinated, embarrassed and even confused.
“Well, that's something of an auspicious start, but that's why they have the phrase auspicious start, because one often starts that way,” I said, trying to cover up my embarrassment for the sloppy turn. Wake Up, Sir!
The speech was deeply embarrassing to Cabinet ministers.
Always the master of every topic on which he attempts to enlighten, he is neither foiled by the sophistries nor embarrassed by the bravadoes of his opponents. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
Not only would they save Scotland's capital city from irreversible destruction, but they might also spare Edinburgh the embarrassment of being exposed before Unesco as an example of sheer hypocrisy and unworthiness.
I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
She was embarrassed suddenly by the ripe-rotten smell of blue statice, which Madda liked to decorate the house with because the flowers “died so beautifully.” Slice Of Cherry
I always considered the ultimate embarrassment in chess to be when you lose your queen to a pawn.
As a symbol of Britain's musical worth, it's a bit of an embarrassment.
As a teenager he was really into wrestling (an embarrassing confession!) and a friend at work has lent him a wrestling game for the week.
Ryan reddened in his light anger and embarrassment.
But it does play on social mores and our embarrassment about natural bodily functions, albeit in a crude way.
Every time she caught his eye, she would glance away embarrassed.
Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves.
A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery. See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Tatiana was quite embarrassed and wished Alexander wouldn't look at her with such mouthwatering adoration. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
In an embarrassing climb-down, the Home Secretary lifted the deportation threat.
Phillip cracked a small smile in a sort of embarrassed confession.
Gabby rolled her eyes up, unembarrassed and continuing to hold her compact.
We have seen how necessary it is that one mind, disembarrassed of all extraneous influences, shall create one coherent plan which shall ever after be strictly followed.
The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments. Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
Kayla yelped in shock and embarrassment at the scene they were displaying to innocent bystanders.
My embarrassment was nothing compared to my father's sense of guilt.

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