How to Use embarrassing in a Sentence

embarrassing

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• This loss wasn’t embarrassing such as recent ones to the Raiders and Bengals.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• The Hunter Pac boot has prevented any embarrassing falls and always keeps my feet warm and dry.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2023
• But to see the players who received votes from other players is embarrassing, and the league may need to review how much say the players have in the process.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• 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
• That's not just an embarrassing story to be heard around the world.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• The list of ways in which mules outshine horses is so long as to be embarrassing.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• Like what’s the most embarrassing thing that can happen to us?
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Mar. 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
• His agent at the time, Jim Griffin, warned that the series was likely to fail and that would be embarrassing for Trump, Setoodeh writes in the book.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
• 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
• For some people, the boils and lumps on the skin can feel embarrassing or affect emotional health.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 12 July 2024
• So, why does doing it in front of others feel so embarrassing?
  — Rachel Dlugatch, Longreads, 18 July 2023
• With a bit of luck, there will be at least one viable candidate for the office who is not embarrassing.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
• 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
• What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever been caught doing?
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Feb. 2023
• 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
• That would have to be priced in with this kind of strategy, and his press shop would need to just roll with embarrassing moments and answers by the president.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
• 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
• This is as embarrassing as when Tyronn Lue turned them down five years ago over issues of money and control.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• After the president’s embarrassing debate performance, Harris’ campaign has changed its approach.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• Which made Trump’s familiar day-after drumbeat — the moderators were biased, the debate rigged — feel less infuriating than embarrassing.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024