Sentence examples for embarrassing sight from inspiring English sources

Since the new Yankee Stadium opened last month, the team has dealt with the continually embarrassing sight of hundreds of empty high-priced seats, complaints about bleacher seats where half the field cannot be seen and concerns that the Stadium is so home run friendly that it is beneath the dignity of Yankees tradition.

There was the embarrassing sight of Mame Biram Diouf being penalised for a foul throw.

It made a mistake by joining Brazil in an ill-fated Iranian nuclear initiative that led to the embarrassing sight of Turkey, a member of the UN Security Council in 2009-10, voting against tougher sanctions on Iran.

The Football Association's worst fears were realised by the embarrassing sight of thousands of empty seats in its £750m monument to the future of the game in this country - just 40,181 turning out to watch England's first match since a World Cup campaign that effectively expired after only two games.

In Yemen this year al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was quick to distance itself from the embarrassing sight - caught on CCTV and posted online by the government - of one of its fighters casually tossing a grenade into a group of terrified medics at a hospital it was raiding.

In turn, the party would be spared the embarrassing sight of having the labor community cold on both candidates in the 2010 Senate race.

It was not just relief, it was joy — extravagant, embarrassing — at the sight of her daughter".

Keep sanitation items neat - keep these in groups, or in your cabinets, also you might want to get anything embarrassing out of sight!

Embarrassed by the sight of her face, smitten expressionless by ecstasy, he raised his voice.

One teacher told the Observer: "Girls hitching up their skirts is not new, but it is getting worse, and the skirts are getting so high that male teachers are constantly saying they are embarrassed by the sight of female underwear in the corridors and especially on the stairs".

An ongoing study based on 300 focus groups with men across the country revealed that they prefer open defecation to a toilet because it: saves water; provides access to fresh water and a breezy environment; lowers the wear and tear of the toilet; protects women from getting embarrassed by the sight of men; and offers a handy excuse to escape importunate wives and mothers.