A scuffle from the basket broke an embarrassed pause.

Easy to see my presence brings embarrassed pause.

With fusion-bombs certain to be involved in any actual conflict, there was something like an embarrassed pause.

There was the slightest, slightly embarrassed pause.

There was an embarrassed pause, then he asked.

And then there was a curious little embarrassed pause, as if none of us knew what to say.

"I know this is silly," said Roger Bentley after an embarrassed pause.

There was a long, extremely embarrassed pause.

An embarrassed pause, then: "Any chance you could persuade your wife to quit her job and move down here to Houston?"

"Ah, sir," she said after an embarrassed pause, "it would not be the first time we have walked there!"