Sentence examples for embarrassing example from inspiring English sources

FRANKFURT — FOR European officials, it may have been an especially untimely — and embarrassing — example of political gridlock.

Baylor University in Texas is a particularly embarrassing example.

A woman from Jarrell, Tex., called the ads "another embarrassing example" of politicians in the state.

Baylor University in Waco, Tex., is a particularly embarrassing example — although hardly the only college making that mistake.

Nepal witnessed an embarrassing example of this in April, when India had its paw-prints all over the country's first proper election in a decade.

The case of Mr Chichester, appointed by Mr Cameron to ensure the integrity of Tory MEPs' expenses, is an embarrassing example.

I have my own - rather embarrassing - example of this too.

"Why they do it, and how they avoid being embarrassed, for example.

Manhattan had set the example, embarrassing St. John's at Madison Square Garden last Saturday.

Frith also suggests that he was sometimes involved in embarrassing situations; for example, when Ranjitsinhji invited him on a hunting trip, "Peel blasted eight barrels at a hare, removing its legs, an ear and much else before chasing the remnants of the animal into a neighbouring property, still firing away, until all life was extinguished".

However, the words may be a sign of different attitudes towards hypersensitivity – something shameful among adults, but in younger age something that puts you in embarrassing situations, for example when attracting attention by asking for safe food.