"I'm not natural at it; there's a certain residual embarrassment asking people for money."

My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment.

Mentally putting herself in the other woman's place, she would have expected to feel a certain embarrassment in this situation.

It had started from the beginning, with a certain reserved embarrassment on the part of the young idiot who had taken me to Livingston.

She was snapping at him when he had saved her from certain embarrassment.

He felt a certain embarrassment at the way he'd handled her body.

I have to confess to a certain personal embarrassment over the introduction of administrative elements into the economic mechanisms.

And there's a certain slight embarrassment about my alibi even when I was ostensibly there.

She feels a certain embarrassment in her present situation in seeing anybody.

Indeed, for a moment, he felt a certain embarrassment.