I will never forget the embarrassing silence that followed.

After he stopped, there was a short, embarrassing silence.

Almost an embarrassing silence, and yet he knew he had sung it well.

I started quickly so I could fill the embarrassing silence.

Earl struggled for something to say, but the phone rang again, once more bailing him out of an embarrassing silence.

There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence.

Pomponia said nothing, and for some moments there was an embarrassing silence.

But after a brief interval of embarrassing silence he appeared to recover.

It stopped when he walked into the cabin, and there was an embarrassing silence while he surveyed the scene.

There was an embarrassing silence before Jasperson came back.