Example sentences for: embarrassing

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

  • Diaz does not quote, at full embarrassing length, Ellis' explanation that he got mixed up with the wrong folk because one of them was "like a brother to me."

  • The London Evening Standard relays an embarrassing postscript to Straw's announcement: He had to withdraw a thick chunk of the already published report Thursday because it contained the names and addresses of witnesses and informants who assisted investigators.

  • Walter Isaacson's personal remarks about Kennedy were embarrassing.

  • In the "partial birth" debate, faced with embarrassing data about the nature of late-term abortions and the reasons for them, pro-choicers again are falling back on the argument that doctors know best.

  • The embarrassing problem of what to do with the "natives" in a post-racist age is solved by eliminating the natives altogether.


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