How to Use embarrass in a Sentence

embarrass

verb

• The protest was staged as a deliberate attempt to embarrass the government.
• She's worried about embarrassing herself in front of such a large audience.
• I would never do anything to embarrass my family.
• Unexpected laughter embarrassed the speaker.
• There is no greater sin in the F.B.I. than to embarrass the bureau.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• And when two icons embarrass themselves at the same time, on the same stage?
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The Big 12’s chance to embarrass Texas on its way out the door begins now.
  — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• The videos were played on Wednesday, which seemed to embarrass Williams.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• But the event seemed to anger and embarrass long-time islanders.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 23 July 2019
• Maybe some laughter will end the spell, and embarrass no one.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Now, the track that embarrassed Drake in a major way has helped Lamar beat one of his records.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Dwyane Wade was there to watch as his son embarrassed an NBA starter.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 4 July 2018
• The award seemed to embarrass the 21-year-old British driver when told about it Thursday.
  — Jim Vertuno, Chron, 22 Oct. 2021
• The sole point of dumping Mr. Trump’s returns is to embarrass him.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• Yet as adults, at least in the West, we’re supposed to be embarrassed by that kind of language.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
• Conaway said good-bye from the doorway, not wanting to embarrass her with a hug and kiss in front of her friends.
  — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2021
• These are the managers who won’t yell or embarrass their people in front of their peers.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• Then Mike Cera challenged me on Chess.com and just embarrassed me.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• Pelosi says the owner of the salon was trying to embarrass her.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
• Soleil Moon Frye's son had the perfect way to embarrass his mom in public.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• While Mailata clearly has the best voice of the bunch, Kelce doesn’t embarrass himself.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Are there any parts of the show that will embarrass them terribly?
  — Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• Ohtani should not be embarrassed by his lack of success against Scott.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• The real advantage of the release of the complete list is not to embarrass but to find fraud.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• But that doesn’t mean these guys can’t embarrass themselves in the meantime.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• Orgeron has deep ties to Northwestern State and will not want to embarrass the Demons.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 14 Sep. 2019
• How much abuse was enough for Manny’s bank to get past not wanting to embarrass the judge?
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Where was the media five- alarm fire over that embarrassing love fest that never worked out, by the way?
  — Fox News, 19 July 2018
• The Pac-12 needs its blue-chip entities not to embarrass it.
  — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
• Thompson isn’t embarrassed by any of the design decisions from her past.
  — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Feb 2025