Sentence examples for embarrassment close from inspiring English sources

He has not joined Congressional Republicans in accusing the administration of playing down a terrorist link to the attack to save the president from embarrassment close to the election.

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Last week, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro added to the embarrassment closing the stadium due to host the athletics events at the 2016 Olympics, which was being used to replace Maracana at major football matches.

I stomped into the kitchen – it's a funny thing, embarrassment, so close to rage – and began furiously washing up.

As to whether he was concerned that his switch of allegiance might pose an embarrassment so close to the eve of the forum's debut, Mr. Abraham said: "It is really not something that I did against Austria.

To Sasha's eye, it almost shook under its load of embarrassments and close shaves and little triumphs and moments of pure exhilaration.

But the emotional wounds from the humiliation and embarrassment had closed and formed a callus where lighthearted feelings used to be.

All that embarrassment about the close links between Murdoch's senior people and David Cameron – who now remembers her text offering a "country supper"?

"So, what does it feel like to be an embarrassment?" His eyes closed with mirth.

So, in order to stave off the embarrassment of being closer to death than me, he hit me with that grim reminder that I'd end up just like him someday, shuffling around this house like an invalid.

Obama's cup of embarrassment in February was close to running over, but at least he now had a major newspaper to share the experience.