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How do you use Embarrass in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like forestall or prevent, plus the exact meaning.

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Embarrass in a sentence

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Embarrass | Embarrassing | Embarrassed | Embarrassment | Embarrassingly | Embarrasses | Embarrassments | Embarrasing

Embarrass meaning

  1. to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
  2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
  3. To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.

Synonyms of Embarrass

abash forestall prevent stymy stymie hinder block blockade obstruct discomfit disconcert untune discompose upset foreclose

Related words

Other words often associated with Embarrass or its synonyms:

preclude forbid evoke elicit impede kindle arouse fire obstruction enkindle jam raise

Using Embarrass

  • The main meaning on this page is: to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash. | To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct. | To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
  • Useful related words include: abash, forestall, prevent, stymy.
  • In the example corpus, embarrass often appears in combinations such as: to embarrass, embarrass the, embarrass him.

Context around Embarrass

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

totally 1× completely 1× royally 1×

Often after:

virgo 1× myself 1× yourself 1× biden 1× non 1×

Sentence patterns with Embarrass

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and completely embarrass myself in 1× attempt to embarrass biden would 1× attempting to embarrass non voters 1× but to embarrass the up 1× does it embarrass me 1× does it embarrass me and 1× doesn t embarrass her family 1× don t embarrass him she 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

any legislation that 1× aries has the 1× as the face 1× brown has requested 1× can you please 1× clarence thomas and 1×

Common sentence endings:

2023 election said 1× and ugh pdas 1× embarrass her family 1× embarrass her kids 1× embarrass her then 1× embarrass my daughter 1×

Words around Embarrass

Just before it in the word index:

embarrasing 3 embarks 167 embarking 332 embarked 756 embarkation 23 embarka 4

Just after it in the word index:

embarrassed 582 embarrasses 16 embarrassing 672 embarrassingly 54 embarrassment 479 embarrassments 13

Similar in corpus frequency:

adage 139 admirer 139 aft 139 amalgamated 139 appointee 139 approachable 139

Corpus analysis for Embarrass

  • In this selection, "embarrass" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, totally, completely, royally, virgo, myself and yourself stand out and add context to how "embarrass" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and completely embarrass myself in and attempt to embarrass biden would. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "embarrass" sits close to words such as adage, admirer and aft, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with embarrass

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

I hope I don't embarrass him,' she said. (9 words)

He wrote in his bio, “Just here to embarrass my daughter. (11 words)

Cletus's wife keeps her impressive intellect a secret so she doesn't embarrass her family. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

As the face of J’Adore, Theron is set to embarrass her daughter some more as the designer brand is ramping up for a rollout of L’Or De J’Adore, a reimagining of the classic fragrance Theron has represented for nearly 19 years. (44 words)

In his memoir Spare, it was “not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me”, and recalled having viewed enemy combatants in the heat of battle as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board. (41 words)

This was also accompanied by a facetime call to his wife to drill her live for the crowd on the details of one of the jokes he told, but since she was with family, he opted not to embarrass her then. (41 words)

Question examples

Can you please confirm all these details yet again so I don’t station myself behind a griddle and completely embarrass myself in front of the staff? (27 words)

Example sentences (20)

Aries has the potential to totally embarrass Virgo with their big mouth, high energy and (ugh) PDAs.

As the face of J’Adore, Theron is set to embarrass her daughter some more as the designer brand is ramping up for a rollout of L’Or De J’Adore, a reimagining of the classic fragrance Theron has represented for nearly 19 years.

Can you please confirm all these details yet again so I don’t station myself behind a griddle and completely embarrass myself in front of the staff?

Clarence Thomas and the Ethical Disaster of the Supreme Court Undisclosed gifts from billionaires won’t even embarrass the right.

Cletus's wife keeps her impressive intellect a secret so she doesn't embarrass her family.

He wrote in his bio, “Just here to embarrass my daughter.

Hunter Biden’s lawsuit asserts that I.R.S. investigators violated the agency’s rules on taxpayer privacy and sought to embarrass him via public statements to the news media.

I can even name them but I don’t want to embarrass them,” the presidential candidate for the 2023 election said.

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If Harry’s aim is to embarrass or damage the reputation of the British monarchy, he might well succeed in doing so.

I hope I don't embarrass him,' she said.

In his memoir Spare, it was “not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me”, and recalled having viewed enemy combatants in the heat of battle as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board.

It’s even harder to royally embarrass yourself, especially if everything in your life is massively high-stakes — and it was.

Just kept the conversation moving to something else and was careful to not embarrass or upset him.

One parent who’s doing just that is Sarah*, who preferred not to share her real name so as not to embarrass her kids.

The fact that all of this is instigated by the mother just minutes after telling her daughter not to embarrass her in front of the journalist in their house makes it just ludicrous.

The gunship footage provided him “with exactness how many enemy combatants I had killed … so my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me”.

The two did not plan to attack the convoy and free Atiq Ahmad - as is being claimed by a section of media-- but to embarrass the UP government, create a sensation and prevent Atiq's frequent trips to UP.

This was also accompanied by a facetime call to his wife to drill her live for the crowd on the details of one of the jokes he told, but since she was with family, he opted not to embarrass her then.

Any legislation that Republicans might draft in an attempt to embarrass Biden would be guaranteed to hurt Trump.

Brown has requested that the organization refrain from publishing voter information or attempting to embarrass non-voters.

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Common combinations with embarrass

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "embarrass" in a sentence?
An example: "Aries has the potential to totally embarrass Virgo with their big mouth, high energy and (ugh) PDAs." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "embarrass" from authentic English texts.
What does "embarrass" mean?
Embarrass means: to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
What are synonyms of "embarrass"?
Common synonyms of "embarrass" include: abash, forestall, prevent, stymy, stymie, hinder, block, blockade. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "embarrass" are there?
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