Sentence examples for embarrassed to read from inspiring English sources

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According to a new study, seventeen per cent of children in the U.K. are "too embarrassed" to read in front of their friends.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet According to a new study, seventeen per cent of children in the U.K. are "too embarrassed" to read in front of their friends.

I was disheartened — and indeed, embarrassed to read in "The Rainbow Runway" (Aug. 12) about the existence of beauty pageants that seem to celebrate and enforce perceptions of the perfect little Chinese doll.

It probably has some OK bits in it – although I'm too embarrassed to read it to find out – but I was trying too hard to write "like a writer" and you can tell: there were lots of metaphors about the sparkling dew on the grass and the trembling leaves on the trees, etc.

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It had no visual component, no tactile component, no scent wafting, no acid collection in the mouth, no person with a hopeful or embarrassed face to read.

E-mails do the same thing, and I'm embarrassed to say how quickly I read them".

I am a little nervous, because Mockingbird is my favourite book of all time, and I hope it lives up to expectation… I will also be reading Jenny Valentine's Fire Colour One, because I love her writing, David Almond's Skellig, because I think he's extraordinary and I'm embarrassed to say I've never read it, and any book I can lay my hands on about the French Revolution.

I'm embarrassed to say this to the Guardian but I've never read Don Quixote.

I'm embarrassed to say that it wasn't until a decade or so ago that I actually read the Quran.

How exactly is it that Vanda, who claims to have just glanced through the script on the subway, is practically word-perfect in the role, not to mention so commanding that Thomas is almost embarrassed to be reading opposite her?

There were some things that I was so embarrassed to be reading out loud, but it's one of those things where you have to commit wholeheartedly or you're going to make a fool of yourself".

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