Sentence examples for small embarrassment from inspiring English sources

It was a small embarrassment for the Red Bull team, which had not yet won a race and was the marketing flagship for the energy drink manufacturer, while Toro Rosso was the training ground.

I bet that the author of an article titled "Why Barnes & Noble May Crush Amazon," which appeared in Fortune magazine in September 1997, now feels no small embarrassment about underestimating Amazon.com's chances at the time.

Whatever happened, it's a small embarrassment.

I say it with no small embarrassment today, but I have to in all honesty admit: I started out as a bigot.

By Lauren Collins Kitty Kelley's book is a confetti bomb of small embarrassments.

A book by Mr. Allyn, out this month, is called "I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How (Seemingly) Small Embarrassments Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life and What You Can Do to Put a Stop to Them".

So far presidential candidate Ted Cruz's announcement that his family will sign up for Obamacare has been treated with humor and, on a small degree, embarrassment.

"Guess not," she added with a small laugh of embarrassment.

These banks consider themselves too small to risk embarrassment.

His small talk suggested embarrassment, and I forgot everything he said, save a few words he quoted to my colleague in idiomatic British English.

Not to put too fine a point on it, he was suffering from a small cash-flow embarrassment: he had long ago spent the advance on his two-book deal with Simon & Schuster.