Sentence examples for embarrassing occasion from inspiring English sources

John Updike became a fluent speaker, but never knew when his affliction would return, as it did on one embarrassing occasion at an American Academy annual meeting when his audience laughed, thinking he was putting on a comic act.

"The gala opening was an embarrassing occasion," he wrote.

Briefly – but only briefly – this this augured to be another embarrassing occasion for them.

One night in Fort Worth, Texas, Presley led the audience in singing "Happy Birthday to You" in honour of the engineer's birthday an "amazing, and very embarrassing" occasion for Jackson.

Anna agrees, noting that she's felt uncomfortable about the implicit associations of UTIs: "I found it embarrassing on occasions when I've had to leave social events, as although I'm a really open person I think there's a stigma whereby people think of UTIs and kidney infections as 'dirty," she says.

My wife has been unfortunately embarrassed on occasion when I've been extolling the virtues of her cum guzzling abilities, onstage.

Let this embarrassing episode be the occasion for a rethinking of the process through which CUNY trustees are chosen.

In 2002, a committee found that he had made up his results on at least 16 occasions, publicly embarrassing his colleagues, his employer and the editorial staffs of both the journals that accepted his results.

This new policy-wonkiness has surprised and, on occasion, embarrassed those around me.

The exchange of rival assertions has made the occasion even more embarrassing.

The Premiership team were not only outfought but on too many occasions embarrassed too by gritty if unspectacular opponents.