Sentence examples for embarrassing something from inspiring English sources

The transformation is both touching and embarrassing — something like George Eliot's suddenly making Dorothea sublimely beautiful in the Roman-museum scene of "Middlemarch".

Head coach Lindy Ruff told the media his team's performance in the 6-2 loss to the New York Rangers was "embarrassing", something he'd clearly expressed during the game by benching his top line of Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Patrick Sharp for the last 12 minutes.

Several participants described the redness as extremely embarrassing; something they would work to cover up.

The new normal is that we all have to live with the unsettling knowledge that at any moment we might be the lucky individual to "go viral" and become famous for the rest of our lives for something unflattering or embarrassing; something that makes people gather around to laugh at us or mock us, or, worst of all, gin up murderous hate against us.

The scene suggested Thicke knows what it is to be embarrassed, something you'd never glean from listening to his new album.

If you do something embarrassing say something like, "Oh, crap.

If you want this relationship to work make sure that you don't say something embarrassing or something that you know you're going to regret!

defer.add img); If they land on 2 numbers that add up to an even number, they must tell the complete truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about something embarrassing or something funny that they once did.

They want my help with something, or they just want to give me a heads-up because it would be embarrassing if something came to the president's notice and I hadn't told him about it...

Our target was the younger children's collective habit of carrying around our toy poodle like an actual toy - not in and of itself embarrassing, just something the poodle, at least, would like to see changed.

If what she said was really embarrassing say something like: Oh, mom! Are you really talking about that 'now?