Sentence examples for lightly embarrassed from inspiring English sources
To pensive piano, the beauty contestants line up, showing leg, looking lightly embarrassed.
When I asked Gary Danko, the chef, how it is made, he laughed lightly, as if embarrassed that he was stumping me with something so plain as ice cream.
Embarrassed Wimbledon officials were not taking the matter lightly.
The three-piece jazz combo at your local hotel ballroom almost certainly features a "drummer" whose sticks are used so lightly that they barely embarrass the skins, and whose wet, buzzy snare sounds like a repeated sneeze.
It is not something anybody contemplates lightly, not least the IMF, which, after arranging $48 billion of financial help for Argentina in less than a year, would be severely embarrassed by such a large-scale failure.
Embarrassed by its failure to follow the rules of good peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, the United Nations now seems likely to delay, if not scuttle, its plans to send another small, lightly armed peacekeeping force to Congo.
Microsoft should be embarrassed.
I was terribly embarrassed.
