Example Sentences

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Tan Dhesi, Labour MP and chair of the defence committee, suggested the UK's response had been "embarrassing".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The lack of attendance had been embarrassing in recent years.

From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2014

Even so, as Bush told Panamanian President Guillermo Endara at the White House last week, the delay had been "embarrassing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Psmith had yielded up the key, but his inquiries as to why it was needed had been embarrassing.

From Mike and Psmith by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

If it had been embarrassing for him to hear it, what must it have cost such a girl as Maud Elliott to say it!

From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Bellamy, Edward