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Example sentences for "embarrasses"

Lexicographically close words:
embarqued; embarras; embarrass; embarrassed; embarrassedly; embarrassing; embarrassingly; embarrassment; embarrassments; embassador
  1. I am waiting for you to explain yourself, monsieur; but perhaps Miretta's presence embarrasses you?

  2. I confess that that embarrasses me considerably; for I do not know any nobleman.

  3. There is no duty which so much embarrasses the Executive and heads of Departments as that of appointments, nor is there any such arduous and thankless labor imposed on Senators and Representatives as that of finding places for constituents.

  4. However, it embarrasses me a little, it embarrasses me a great deal, to find you here.

  5. This is an ill practice, which needlessly multiplies our redundant verbs, and greatly embarrasses what it seems at first to simplify: as, "O friend!

  6. And yet that three millions is not what embarrasses us.

  7. Although war gratifies the army, it embarrasses and often exasperates that countless multitude of men whose minor passions every day require peace in order to be satisfied.

  8. He is afraid of ranging himself too high--still more is he afraid of being ranged too low; this twofold peril keeps his mind constantly on the stretch, and embarrasses all he says and does.

  9. Don Carlos's close proximity to London much embarrasses all the members of the diplomatic corps, whose courts have left their relations with Spain conveniently vague.

  10. This constantly embarrasses the Ambassadors in their relations with him, and above all puts M.

  11. Every important subject which embarrasses the convert, was most minutely investigated, especially faith, the sin against the Holy Ghost, the divinity of Christ, and such essential truths.

  12. These few pages on election contain a scriptural treatise upon a very solemn subject, written by one whose mind was so imbued by the fear of God, as to have cast out the fear of man; which so generally embarrasses writers upon this subject.

  13. I am uneasy at the delay, because it not only embarrasses me with guessing at excuses to the purchaser, but is likely to make me fail in my payments to Hanson, which ought to be made in Richmond on the 19th of next month.

  14. His conduct has been honorable and decisive, and greatly embarrasses them.

  15. Our adversaries have adopted a system of tactics, which embarrasses us not a little.

  16. These tactics have been employed in the service of all abuses, and I must frankly admit one thing, that it always embarrasses even the friends of those reforms which are most useful to the people.

  17. There was a reason for my going to Pine Inlet--it embarrasses me to explain it, but the truth is I meditated writing an ode to the ocean.

  18. It embarrasses me like the devil to say such a thing," continued Rowan, digging in the sand with his spurred heels.

  19. To rebuke a servant before others is a great unkindness to her and needlessly embarrasses the visitor.

  20. But during those ten years there were twenty occasions when I could have repaid you with ease, while to-day the restitution you demand embarrasses me dreadfully.

  21. In this manner I shall have the necklace which pleased me so much, and if it embarrasses me to pay it, at least it will not hurt the king; and I shall have gained the knowledge that I have a friend who has guessed my wishes.


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