Sentence examples for wave of embarrassment from inspiring English sources

A wave of embarrassment rushed through me as the men nearby fell about laughing.

Dear Cynthia: At the Academy I was happy to see you, but then a wave of embarrassment struck me when I was reminded of my neglect and bad manners.

A wave of embarrassment passes over his face, as do a bit of surprise, a regret that he can never treat basic knowledge so casually, and an attempt to hide everything he's feeling.

Mr. Weiner and Ms. Abedin said through a spokeswoman that they were doing the same, paying the going rate for their apartment, where they moved a few months after he resigned from office, swept from Washington by a tidal wave of embarrassment and some exceptionally revealing Twitter posts.

A wave of embarrassment came over me.

Just before I went on, a friend said to me, "Hey, I'm so proud of you, well done," and I said, "Wait, what are you talking about?" "There was like a wave of embarrassment and I wanted the floor to just swallow me up whole.

It was a tournament that began with tentative hope and concluded, as it has done with brutal regularity, with a wave of anguish and embarrassment.

I give a little wave and smile, oddly free of embarrassment.

Either that or, if Motion is right, the old British vice of embarrassment has created a new wave of self-censorship.

There are entertaining comedy-of-embarrassment touches.

We ride a wave of pride or get swallowed in a sea of embarrassment based on brief interactions that signal respect or disrespect.