How to Use embarrassing in a Sentence

embarrassing

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• The fame was all a bit embarrassing to Byard, the 65-year-old whose face is framed by a thick mustache.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• The list of ways in which mules outshine horses is so long as to be embarrassing.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• But now, the only embarrassing thing about the Orioles is their CEO.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
• Payne was the only one to show up during the Suns’ embarrassing Game 6 defeat to the Nuggets after all.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 23 May 2023
• It’s been an embarrassing start to the season for the Mariners, who sit at 4-8 after three straight losses.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• Please tell us your most embarrassing moment from the season that didn't make it to the blooper reel.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2024
• And somebody’s saying all of the embarrassing bits, too.
  — Michelle Mehrtens, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• Senior quarterback Drake Lindsey called the shutout in front of the home crowd embarrassing and pledged to make up for it.
  — Rick Fires, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Say goodbye to those embarrassing odors and hello to fresh, clean clothes!
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2023
• But that loss was an embarrassing 3-0 defeat to the U.S. in the Nations League semifinals.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Good luck to the Bulls on being the first overmatched team to catch Alabama after its embarrassing home loss to Texas.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• So, why does doing it in front of others feel so embarrassing?
  — Rachel Dlugatch, Longreads, 18 July 2023
• But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been some stumbles along the way — some of them quite high-profile and embarrassing to the companies behind them.
  — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• The film has always had the taint of a vanity project and remains, as a result, vaguely embarrassing.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps weighing on the Americans' minds is an embarrassing 3-0 loss to Sweden two years ago at the Tokyo Olympics.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• This whole thing was super DIY, just me and Richard (and his camcorder) having the time of our lives and being embarrassing superfans.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• Distilled to its purest essence, rock music, my genre of choice, is somewhat embarrassing.
  — Nate Rogers, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• Toreros notes: The most embarrassing season in USD history slogs on.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• Huang was soft-spoken and clearly doing his best to be boring — taking the stand in a fraud trial is the sort of thing that can be very embarrassing for investors.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• His pathetic attempt to court the Trumpers has been embarrassing.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 31 Oct. 2023
• Some of it's embarrassing and overly personal, but none of it was ever wrong.
  — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• The loss was painfully embarrassing for a politician unused to defeat.
  — Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Putting the plan into action had required making a series of deeply embarrassing phone calls.
  — Sam Apple, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Secondhand clothes, once seen as frumpy and embarrassing, are now keenly sought out by the fashion conscious.
  — Joshua Kirby, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
• These are Americans who were bringing it here and that's embarrassing.
  — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Pascal also advised Bad Bunny to show an embarrassing photo of himself, and the host said that nothing could be found.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• Key Takeaways Bad breath, also known as halitosis, can be embarrassing and hard to get rid of.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
• The embarrassing ordeal convinces him that God doesn’t exist.
  — Tim Parks, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Like a lot of Google court cases, this case has most of the records sealed so that embarrassing comments and testimony about the reality of Google's business don't reach the public.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
• It’s been an embarrassing saga for Barra who has touted its self-driving technology as a key pillar of GM’s plan to double revenue by the end of the decade.
  — David Welch, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024