embarrassment

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He takes the defiance as an insult and the public insult as an embarrassment.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Your mom probably thought she was on top of things and was avoiding getting your involved in order to spare you the burden and her the embarrassment.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It was the biggest embarrassment of all time that caused the uproar that it did.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

She fumed, then realized everyone at the table was staring at her again with matching expressions of shock and embarrassment.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack