Example sentences for: embarrassed

How can you use “embarrassed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • First of all, he name-drops so often even Dick Cavett is embarrassed for him, and his commentary is so lightweight it makes our exchanges in "Breakfast Table" read like a dialogue between Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Plato.

  • There seemed to be agreement in the world's press that the escape of the 14-year-old karmapa, the third-ranking leader in Tibet's spiritual hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the panchen lama, embarrassed practically everybody.

  • Not only did he attack Helms July 15, but he deliberately embarrassed the White House--which had refrained from quarreling with Helms--by calling on Clinton to speak up for his confirmation.

  • A talking skeleton holding a LifeStyles condom in bony fingers confides that he never used a condom because he was "too embarrassed to ask for them from behind the counter," and because he'd "feel awkward stopping in the middle of everything just to put this on."

  • The result was an administration that was regularly embarrassed by PR "fiascoes."


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