Example sentences for: embarrassment

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

  • I confess with embarrassment that I didn't do my homework: that is, I didn't go to the Core's Web site to see just how Bennett's lists are treated by the originator himself, E.D.

  • The South African priest who invited Clinton to do so is quoted in the paper as saying that once Clinton stood up, he was thinking about "how much embarrassment it would have caused him by my saying, please sit down."

  • Typically, extortion means that you're threatening someone with harm or embarrassment to extract a concession.

  • The national media clucked at James' embarrassment and blamed it on his putative religious extremism.

  • But this too would have risked embarrassment, since Clinton is an acknowledged computer illiterate and can't type.


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