Sentence examples for device to embarrass from inspiring English sources

A favoured device to embarrass subordinates was obliging them to take his orders while he defecated.

UQs (urgent questions) are devices used by the opposition to embarrass the government, by exposing failings in policy or adminstration, and on paper this should have been a good opportunity for Hunt, who was promoted to the shadow cabinet less than two weeks ago.

I didn't mean to embarrass him if I did, embarrass my team, embarrass the ownership, embarrass the fans".

"You don't want to embarrass yourself.

Was this American trying to embarrass him?

We don't want to embarrass anyone".

Their shared blood seems to embarrass them.

What do we do to embarrass them?

You're not going to embarrass them.

They don't want to embarrass themselves".

He wasn't trying to embarrass anybody".