"Sometimes, it just comes out and I don't know why," she says with a short, embarrassed laugh.

She gave off an embarrassed laugh that was almost a sob.

"Way the hell back in high school," Carl said with an embarrassed laugh.

There was another long pause and then a slightly embarrassed laugh.

She gave a funny little embarrassed laugh, as if I had been making a bad joke.

There was a silence until, after a moment, the first man gave an embarrassed laugh.

And when his mother came to visit, "she got a little worried," he recalled with an embarrassed laugh.

Then she looked at him and uttered a short, almost embarrassed laugh.

But his embarrassed laugh was a confession that she had come rather close to the mark.

The world came back to normal with an embarrassed laugh.