Sentence examples for embarrassingly late from inspiring English sources

I worked out the whole lying thing embarrassingly late.

(She bought him for the Mets embarrassingly late in his career).

Though "I didn't throw my racket when a kid... when I lost a match, my usual reaction - until an embarrassingly late age - was to burst into tears".

I am embarrassingly late to reading Junot Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which was published nearly a decade ago.

He publicly questioned the ethics of a dying man, Bernie Banton, and during the election campaign he turned up embarrassingly late to a televised debate.

Peter Greenaway, in The Draughtsman's Contract, took trouble to provide authentic 17th-century costumes and architecture, yet the draughtsman's drawings – central to the plot – are embarrassingly late 20th-century in style.

Breasts develop embarrassingly early or frustratingly late -- except in boys with gynecomastia (a swelling of the mammary glands whose incidence spikes during puberty), who could probably live happily without them altogether.

But, if the statement from Rangers on 6 February  is any guide (and it had to be extensively and embarrassingly corrected last week), the latest move has more to do with the question of whether Dave King is qualified to serve as a director.

As late-night comedians have embarrassingly noted, again and again, Justice Scalia went duck hunting with Mr. Cheney, and accepted free rides on Air Force Two for himself and his daughter, shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the task-force case.

You alternate between being appalled at him and laughing at him because of his latest crazy comment or his embarrassingly narcissistic stance on everything because everything is about him.

loan and other large financial infills that Egypt desperately needs as its economy approaches a cliff: the Egyptian pound is expected to devalue within weeks, the budget has a giant hole in it, and the latest issue of government bonds had an embarrassingly small uptake.