Example sentences for: embarrassing

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

  • The Times does not spare the "most embarrassing" details of what it portrays as a misadventure, including the fact that a 29-year-old commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army stood Dole up, leaving him to wrangle over the telephone with another guerilla leader.

  • As often happens in campaigns, Brown suffered an embarrassing defection last month, when writer Walter Kirn quit and told the press he had been saddled with "celebrity profile assignments."

  • Wolf's new book, like her pet theme of "desire," is extremely hard to pin down and, once in a while, even embarrassing.

  • The Mondale-Ferraro campaign degenerated into a wretched, embarrassing spectacle, but Ferraro proved that a woman could be just as good--and just as bad--a vice-presidential candidate as any man.

  • The story is the latest in a spate of NYT pieces to feature a quote embarrassing to the Gore camp.


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