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    Use "embarrassment" in a sentence

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    embarrassment


    1. I wrote to the brewery pointing out that their handling of the situation had caused me unnecessary embarrassment


    2. ’ I said, feeling my face burning with embarrassment


    3. He reddens with embarrassment, sheepishly hands over the pistol


    4. embarrassment to the church of the Lord


    5. I try to respond accordingly but he senses my embarrassment at once:


    6. It took him awhile to get his mind on the romance of the moment because of his embarrassment, but once they started, the hunger for Desa's body took over and the absence of yaag caused them to finish quickly


    7. CARRIE: The fact that she wanted to go through with filing the charges, the medical examination, and the embarrassment that she knew was inevitable as a result of a rape trial


    8. At the sound of Berndt clearing his throat noisily, I jump, immediately trying to extricate myself from Joris’ embrace, but he gently restrains me, turning to face his friend without any embarrassment


    9. But uncle was very persuasive, so after nods from my aunt, we went and stood at the water's edge with the icy wetness licking my toes, and my arms clutching my body against the spray, and to hide my embarrassment


    10. All was silent now except for the screaming of the swifts and our mutual embarrassment

    11. The great bank’s chairman was ready to fire the maid for causing so much confusion and embarrassment, but his wife had extensive experience in the realm of hotels and subterfuge, and she persuaded him to go to work and that she would sort things out with the domestic staff


    12. 'Yes, but with girls not men,' I laughed hoping to hide my embarrassment and shut him out but he had me in his sights


    13. Terry managed to stammer out a high-pitched "Course not", and then he just stood there frozen with embarrassment as the dog played keepie-uppie with all four paws


    14. My face burns with embarrassment, but there is no hesitation in my mind


    15. Hell … what have I said? … the awkwardness of the whole situation here in the café suddenly clobbers me … embarrassment crawls up my face … made worse as I remember where we were at the time


    16. These thirty years are an embarrassment for India,' Ish


    17. Embarrassment showed quickly on her face as Mistress Sera realized the time


    18. I thought that I would feel awkward when it came to bedtime – I’ve never gone to bed with a man when Rob has been around but when it comes to it, there is no embarrassment


    19. ‘I thought it appropriate,’ he said by way of explanation, and Alastair smiles at me across the table, clearly enjoying my embarrassment


    20. Surprise and embarrassment showed on her face as she looked up at him

    21. It was a complete picture! For a moment I thought she was going to explode with embarrassment – you know what she’s like … well, we all milled about helping ourselves to the buffet and the various people gave some short speeches


    22. causing so much confusion and embarrassment, but his wife had


    23. embarrassment as the dog played keepie-uppie with all four paws


    24. ’ I admitted awkwardly, ‘I’ll die of embarrassment


    25. face the crowd after an embarrassment like that was astonishing


    26. Jo is standing by the door in the lounge and turns towards me as I walk in, my face still burning with embarrassment


    27. ‘Then you had better get back over to your place if the man has come all this way to see you!’ I said, amused by her embarrassment


    28. She was embarrassed by his embarrassment, and seemed insulted by his refusal


    29. “No not yet Miss Spelman, not yet,” he answered to chuckles and Kaitlyn's slight embarrassment


    30. much to his embarrassment - the name meant nothing to

    31. Embarrassment quickly took its place, on her face and she dropped her head, as the crowd once again closed in


    32. She told me, with some embarrassment, how she tricked Kaitlyn into telling her what her friend had sworn never to tell


    33. She felt a wave of embarrassment wash over her -- though she wasn't certain if the feeling was born of her or the child


    34. embarrassment when his nearly empty purse spilled open during the auction


    35. ” I covered my face with my palms, as though hiding my embarrassment, but I knew it was futile


    36. He’d purchase her from Tragus, if only to avoid the embarrassment of


    37. Zarko had reasoned that trying to hide his manhood at that moment would merely postpone the inevitable and cause him more embarrassment


    38. This had been the only way they would bridge the years that they hadn’t seen each other naked so that they would be able to continue as in the past without inhibitions and embarrassment


    39. Yavi had started sketching and Zarko had felt relieved that his initial embarrassment was over


    40. What was she thinking? She touched her lips as the thought occurred to her, trying to hide her embarrassment

    41. He is thereby saved from the embarrassment of either too large a company, or too large a family


    42. She felt a flash of embarrassment at her position, chiding herself for not being skilled enough in magecraft to attack the cat without her blade


    43. The idea made her blush and she turned away to hide her embarrassment


    44. The loss of the Portugal trade would, no doubt, have occasioned a considerable embarrassment to the merchants at that time engaged in it, who might not, perhaps, have found out, for a year or two, any other equally advantageous method of employing their capitals; and in this would probably have consisted all the inconveniency which England could have suffered from this notable piece of commercial policy


    45. And his fear rapidly became mixed with shame and embarrassment


    46. New visitors entering Plot E could actually read what they had written a long time ago and that caused a great deal of embarrassment to the poor scriptwriters!


    47. There sometimes was the occasional smile from a girl after a furtive glance from him when he then recoiled with embarrassment


    48. The ride home was a sore affair, compounded with the embarrassment of passing a couple out for a stroll, turning his head to hide the worse injured side, for all that would convince anyone that nothing had happened


    49. ‘That’s okay,’ she said mildly, responding to his embarrassment


    50. Innocence and righteousness and then embarrassment














































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    Synonyms for "embarrassment"

    embarrassment overplus plethora superfluity deterrent distress harassment hindrance trouble vexation puzzlement discomfiture chagrin quandary unease confusion

    "embarrassment" definitions

    the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public


    the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)


    some event that causes someone to be embarrassed


    extreme excess