Sentence examples for a little abashed from inspiring English sources
The bad ideas of the camel and the avocado would take a little abashed explaining.
Then, a little abashed, "of course you always get that kind of talk".
Roger Bennett, an English sports commentator who loves American soccer, explains why he's feeling a little abashed by his team's ignominious failure to qualify for the World Cup.
Charles Egerton, trainer of Darkness, may be feeling a little abashed, but he seemed to take the sensible course in going with Wayne Hutchinson instead.
Sitting in Mr Blair's shoes, ordinary mortals might have felt just a little abashed at the failure to unearth a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq after more than two months of searching.
Even Ms. Fanning, weeping on cue and looking uncomfortable otherwise, seems a little abashed that the movie, in the end, has to be all about her. "The Secret Life of Bees" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).
Among the most influential literary critics to emerge from the academy, Trilling admitted late in life that he had once stood "puzzled, abashed, and a little queasy" before the "high artistic culture of the modern age," a discomfort no doubt torqued by sitting at a table next to a man whose mind had been formed at first hand by that culture.
I was so abashed that I have actually secreted the line way deep in Carter Beats the Devil, as a little salute to her for not paying any attention to what I thought.' How might they have felt had one of them found success this year and not the other.
My right eye burned and shut tight, and a dark future as an abashed Cyclops stretched before me.
"I saw Katie Price here on TV," she says, a touch abashed.
