Example sentences for: embarrassingly

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

  • I have embarrassingly large conflicts of interest in this story.

  • (At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)

  • Brooks' best scenes operate on an X-ray level of honesty, so that shortcuts, formulas, easy ways out of dramatic jams--stuff that slicker filmmakers can get by with--seem in his work embarrassingly exposed.

  • It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing.

  • He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.


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