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How to use embarrassed in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Embarrassed means having a feeling of shameful discomfort. Example: “After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.”

Examples of embarrassed by meaning

adjectiveHaving a feeling of shameful discomfort.

  • After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.

More sentences with embarrassed

  • He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.From the entry gun
  • She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.From the entry innuendo
  • Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.From the entry tantrum
  • George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.From the entry birthday suit
  • I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.From the entry nightie
  • I was embarrassed when my girlfriend walked in on my friends and me playing air guitar.From the entry air guitar
  • A man or his business is embarrassed when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements.From the entry embarrass
  • She was not embarrassed at all so she told the story jocularly.From the entry jocularly
  • I was embarrassed that they made such a big to-do out of my birthday.From the entry to-do
  • I'm so embarrassed, I misquoted Hamlet to a professor of Shakespeare.From the entry misquote
  • In mid-sentence, I checked myself abruptly, looking terribly embarrassed.From the entry check
  • The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.From the entry embarrass
  • Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.From the entry understandably
  • He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.From the entry understandably
  • I don't mind double-dipping when eating with my family, but I'd be embarrassed to do it when out with friends.From the entry double-dip
  • As for our apple supply, this year's crop is unready, and last year's stored crop is now exhausted, so we're temporarily embarrassed, I'm afraid.From the entry unready
  • The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.From the entry tromp
  • Embarrassed beyond measure, she blushed crimsonly.From the entry crimsonly
  • Some of the tourists in the upcountry might have embarrassed themselves if they'd been capable of having any shame, whining that they couldn't wait to get back to civilization.From the entry civilization
  • Most of the magazine’s writers are too embarrassed to defend Trump’s behavior outright.2020 September 15, Jonathan Chait, “National Review Has Elevated Anti-Anti-Trumpism to an Art Form”, in Intelligencer, archived from the…. From the entry anti-Trumpism
  • Oftentimes you're embarrassed and don't want other people to know about it.2015, Kelly Tonelli, Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women, Morgan James Publishing…. From the entry big-girl pants
  • If the Foo Fighters had talked to me about my superfandom I would have been embarrassed too.2013, Corey Ann Haydu, OCD Love Story, New York, N.Y. […]: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry superfandom
  • I smiled ignomously and said with an embarrassed voice, “I’m sorry, Laura.2007, Norman Shabel, The Badger Game, page 148. From the entry ignomously
  • You can totally be yourself without worrying if your guy is impressed or embarrassed!2003, Andrea Stephens, Stuff a Girl’s Gotta Know: Little Hints for Big Things in A Teen's Life. From the entry zap 'em up
  • It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.1996, Rom Harré, W. Gerrod Parrott, editors, The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, SAGE, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry vicarious embarrassment
  • In a distant forest a wolf howled, felt embarrassed when no one joined in, and stopped.1986, Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, published 2022, page 108. From the entry join in
  • I tried to put him off, feeling embarrassed, but David made it easy to accept his beneficence.1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5. From the entry bolt out of the blue
  • He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry resounding
  • Like me, you will be so embarrassed for Earth’s primo edgelord that he feels pressed into doing something so excruciatingly conventional.2025 June 13, Marina Hyde, “So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry primo
  • It is not too embarrassed to turn up as shopgirl philosophy or on delinquent mixtapes: “Our ideas are on everybody’s mind.”2024, McKenzie Wark, Leaving The Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions, page 159. From the entry shopgirl
  • "Are you making pushies, Lily bean?" Lily nods, feeling embarrassed and humiliated in front of all those people.2023 June 19, “Lily's Day At the Zoo”, in AB World Magazine, number 4, page 22. From the entry pushie
  • "It's more common than people realize, and I think people are just embarrassed to talk about it," he says.2021 March 8, Dr. Sameer Islam and Mike Darling, “A Doctor Explains Why Bookstores Make Some People Feel the Need to Poop”, in Men's Health. From the entry book bowel
  • I am more than a little embarrassed that you hired and paid a detective on little 'ol me.2020 December 18, ScottW, “Party time for Witless”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet). From the entry yodaish
  • Sometimes she used to hide her face from his, embarrassed by her tears in front of his cynical ridicule.2016 April 7, Zoe Miller, Someone New, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry in floods
  • I was too embarrassed I had a gay cousin.2010, Torrey Maldonado, Secret Saturdays, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry oh, dip
  • No matter, you will not be embarrassed.2009, Megan McMorris, Woman's Best Friend, page 147. From the entry poochie
  • Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me.1998, Tawfiq al-Hakim, “My Donkey and Hypocrisy”, in William Maynard Hutchins, transl., In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Boulder…. From the entry disloyal
  • Her mother always embarrassed her to death.1997, Jamie Suzanne, Big Brother's in Love Again, Random House, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry vomitrocious
  • Elmo was embarrassed by all the attention.1990, Mark Teague, Moog-Moog, Space Barber, Scholastic Corporation, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry crinkler

Meaning of embarrassed

  1. adjective Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
  2. adjective Impeded; obstructed; in an awkward situation.

Full definition of embarrassed

Questions about embarrassed in a sentence

How do you use embarrassed in a sentence?
Embarrassed is used as an adjective. For example: “After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.”
What is a short sentence with embarrassed?
“Embarrassed beyond measure, she blushed crimsonly.”
What does embarrassed mean?
Embarrassed means having a feeling of shameful discomfort.

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