Sentence examples for embarrassed pause from inspiring English sources
There is an embarrassed pause.
"Are we in a bank," it comes blurting out, "because you're a national treasure?" An embarrassed pause.
If you pitched this idea to a class in Economics 101, there would be an embarrassed pause, and eventually a hand would go up and someone would ask, "Is that even possible?" The answer: "Nobody knows".
Dialogue overheard on a West Side I.R.T. train, between an elderly lady and a youth attempting to concentrate on a textbook: LADY: "How do you spell 'drought,' young man?" YOUTH: "Pardon?" LADY: "I asked you how do you spell 'drought'?" YOUTH, after a short, embarrassed pause: "Um" LADY: "D-r-o-u-g-h-t.
By Victor Perera and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, September 25 , 1965P. 45 Dialogue overheard on a West Side I.R.T. train, between an elderly lady and a youth attempting to concentrate on a textbook: LADY: "How do you spell 'drought,' young man?" YOUTH: "Pardon?" LADY: "I asked you how do you spell 'drought'?" YOUTH, after a short, embarrassed pause: "Um" LADY: "D-r-o-u-g-h-t.
When I asked Kawakubo what those early designs looked like (she hasn't kept many pictures in her archives), she answered after a long, perhaps embarrassed, pause, "Denim apron skirt.
Between false starts and embarrassed pauses, Gale spoke of the legacy possible following the club's first County Championship title success for 13 years.
Shelton paused, almost embarrassed — unsure whether Kristen was joking.
If someone got a little too close, there was an awkward pause, followed by embarrassed laughter.
Half-embarrassed, expecting refusal, I asked the obvious: "Why don't you do one, too?" Long pause.
