How To Use Awkward In A Sentence

There were a few awkward social situations. Times, Sunday Times
There were a few awkward social situations. Times, Sunday Times
At the end of the day, Madison wrote Washington that Henry and Mason “appeared to take different & awkward ground,” and “the federalists are a good deal elated by the existing prospect.” Ratification
The unposed, rather awkward-looking, front-on shots remind us that fashion is not all about celebrity and stylists.
The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.

Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.
The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
The atmosphere grew tenser and an awkward pause ensued.
People who knew Weisberg as a child recall a disheveled and awkward boy who habitually chewed on his shirt collar. One Smart Bookie
Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
A chance to fulfil your top ambition may come at an awkward time, but you'll make the most of it. The Sun
There was an awkward semicircle of wheeled vehicles arranged around the wreck, all black and white with lights on.
How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Some of the country is like England, undulating, rolling, well-cultivated fields, enclosed with pailings which overlap each other and would be awkwardish obstacles in a hunting country; but one misses, like abroad, the cattle -- we saw one or two stray cows, but little else. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
Gwen essayed to follow with equal skill, but the stile was a very steep and awkward one, and she needed both hands to hold the drake. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
The researchers were regarded by some people as the police, asking awkward but justifiable questions. Times, Sunday Times
In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way.
He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining.
“Aussie slang: drongo – a stupid, inept, awkward or embarrassing person, a dimwit or slow-witted person” A Dumbass By Any Other Name | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!
Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. The Hidden Children
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
An aerosol spray will make short work of painting awkward objects.
Walking awkwardly after two hip operations, he was given a warm reception by the multiracial crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of the cold rainwater soaking his collar from the inspector's awkwardly held umbrella had diminished. THE LAST RAVEN
The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. A Renegade History of the United States
Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
You could knock him for not really interacting with his audience, for the scattergun nature of his approach, or for his awkward way of dealing with a heckle.
He would smile mysteriously at her, or look at her with a new kind of interest that made her feel awkward and clumsy around him.
It also provided a social setting where the sixth graders could mingle without the pressures of a party or dance, which can be awkward for this age group.
It was the most awkward time of my life. The Sun
In her portraits, the head fits awkwardly on the clothing.
Then came the awkward moment when Kathleen realized what she was: an amusement afforded Margaret by her latest dry spell.
I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
The handle of this teapot has an awkward shape.
He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder.
Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
His staging was awkward; he tended to limit action unnecessarily to small parts of the stage and to scatter furniture about at random.
Everyone knows what's best for him or herself. He/she or he can also be used in writing:If in doubt, ask your doctor. He/she can give you more information. These uses can seem awkward when they are used a lot. It is better to try to change the sentence, using a plural noun. Instead of saying:A baby cries when he or she is tired you can say Babies cry when they are tired.
Every person who stands up in protest against the plans makes it that little bit more awkward for the powers-that-be to steamroller ahead.
The summit itself, which lies west of the col, involves some awkward scrambling but the views are as good from the col as the summit.
The awkward boy I knew had metamorphosed into a tall, confident man.
A chance to fulfil your top ambition may come at an awkward time, but you'll make the most of it. The Sun
The girls share an awkward, boxy physical presence, highlighted by their penchant for vintage clothes and clompy boots.
In spite of the divorce there was no awkwardness between them - in fact they seemed very much at ease.
It showed me a way of arguing, quite different from the hot-faced, angry exchanges with family members or the awkward, self-conscious exchanges with school friends.
they arrived at an awkward time
Papers, basting, needless whipstitching, awkward ways to join units together … I could go on. Moving hands
An awkward and uncomfortable atmosphere pervades the tense setting.
I told her about my coffee date with my neighbour last week, and we analysed with our usual ruefulness the mixture of mellowness and awkwardness that arose.
If anyone would like to email me with their awkward or embarrassing moments, I can post them here anonymously.
She flounces off and leaves them all looking awkward.
He just walked around like a dummy with the rest of us with an awkward scope on his rifle.
self-evident," since become awkward of acceptance, were ever thus pettifogged out of the path, and fundamental principles have in this way prescriptively been tampered with. "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"
Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.
I hauled in the trailing ropes, hoisted this awkward sail reefed, the forestaysail being already set, and under this sail brought her at once on the wind heading for the land, which appeared as an island in the sea. Sailing Alone Around the World
This was awkward when I did temp work. Times, Sunday Times
Make sure no awkward stretching is required.
The two genres don't play off each other or give each other a fresh spin; they awkwardly coincide and never truly cross-fertilize. Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest
He took over at an awkward time. Times, Sunday Times
Never step over fences, jump ditches, or make other awkward or unbalanced moves while holding a loaded firearm.
Many parts of the road are narrow, and in some places the camber is very awkward.
His right arm is still paralysed and when he walks it is with an awkward shuffle. The Sun
Ben, an awkward adolescent, is closer to being a successfully evolved man than the grown ones he encounters.
These formal encounters are always an awkward mixture of grandstanding and highly technical wrangling about the terms of trade. Times, Sunday Times
The old school photograph shows a handsome, fresh-faced teenage boy staring awkwardly at the camera.
But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along. Chapter XI
Apparently, adolescence is awkward for humans and birds alike. Chicken Update
Having immersed myself in his life, it infuriates me that the man behind some of the greatest films ever made should have been reduced to this awkward, exiled and in some ways grotesque figure.
I find if you fuck a man as soon as he walks in through the door, then you avoid this kind of hideously awkward exchange. The Date The Earth Stood Still
Their steeply raked windshields and low seats gave them a track-ready look but made them awkward to use (though they are comfortable enough once you're inside).
The South African government's passive response to events in Zimbabwe inevitably raises awkward questions about the depth of its own commitment to democracy.
It felt quite awkward and when I was standing over the first tee shot I realised I hadn't even tied the laces on my sneakers, which are a half size too big as well.
Although some extra work seems to come at an awkward time, you can handle it in style. The Sun
He is an awkward, clumsy boy in the community.
Loved Smackdown and i am excited about John Morrison's potential but i wish the writers would just leave poor Vickie alone, JM calling her abig fat pig was so unnecessary and made it all feel very awkward. Blog updates
Since the party's preferred historical narrative casts it as the only begetter of China's liberation and subsequent rise, this awkward complication is hard to overlook. China's Confucian makeover | Isabel Hilton
On stage, he's smart but unacademic; attractive yet mildly awkward; friendly but acerbic.
– The point-of-view switches awkwardly from the grandfather (” he feels momentarily vindicated”) to Ruthie (” Ruthie doesn’t understand why …”). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
The playsuit was a dream on the scooter, no awkward hitching up of skirt, and I had total freedom of movement.
It can be viewed as yet another manifestation of the awkwardness, or cussedness, of organisms.
He conducts an awkward interview in a swimming pool with increasing buoyancy issues. Times, Sunday Times
Protruding awkwardly above the much older buildings, the huge, prismlike shingled roof of the modern church overhangs a concrete patio bearing a seven-foot wooden cross. American Grace
Seriously, I think services like this are great for dealing with awkward situations in a harmless, non-confrontational way.
Something of a maverick figure, he has a long record of raising awkward questions for successive British administrations.
Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
The captain emphasised that a slow pitch made batting awkward for all those new to the crease. Times, Sunday Times
Tash bit her lip, feeling her words were graceless and awkward, when her gratitude was so much more.
Meanwhile, Nick breaks the awkward silence with Madge concerning her current plight, and a not very plausible ginger-haired halfwit continues to pursue the ladies. Tonight's TV highlights: Asian Gracefully | Benidorm | Friday Night Dinner | The Simpsons | Ron Sexsmith: Love Shines | Treme
A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
We dropped down to a lower level were we encountered a hading (inclined from the vertical) fault plane which was rather awkward and tiring as we were walking at an angle!
But to my surprise, the futuristic seats don't actually spin round; we end up hunched awkwardly over the flashing armrests, gawping around and discussing the curious venue.
He also scented some rare shindies in the game Yaspard was playing, and Harry, seeing that the situation was an awkward one, agreed. Viking Boys
With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
In fact it was rather ugly, with coarse brown scales and thick awkward looking fins.
Most Londoners have been in the awkward situation of having to explain to visitors from the US, that the flags aren't at half mast because someone has died, but merely to mourn the loss of our Empire.
He clambers confidently ahead of me, keeping the rope between us tight, stopping at each awkward step to see me safely over.
She watched him assume the awkward position.
John is so shy and awkward that everyone notices him.
In television, a medium where you can't move for unfunny, awkward, comedy-kryptonite quartets, that's gold dust. Times, Sunday Times
Their name humanized them and relieved his awkward feeling. If Winter Comes
I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
the viewpoint is creating awkward obscuration where there needs to be clarity and transparency
Hesiod's version shows some stylistic awkwardness and inconcinnity, but is not without power.
His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. STARDUST
With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear.
It's an awkward door you have to bend down to go through it.
He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
Until yesterday, this was a quiet place, even while the people on either side were clearly distressed by a new and awkward tension.
Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books - written, no doubt, by extroverts - regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward.
One of them appeared very awkward and bunglesome and his failure produced much merriment. The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,
We attempted to make life as awkward as possible for them. The Sun
All children go through an awkward stage at some time.
It's super long (as in waist long), the ends are dry and my fringe is awkwardly long as well. Archive 2008-09-01
First I only noticed movement, a kind of awkward bending like those squidgy plastic toys which stick to glass. Country Diary: Wenlock Edge
Shaw said it was vital to teach everyone in your business how to deal with awkward customers.
Lashing points are handily placed in each corner of the loadspace to secure any awkward-shaped packages.
These are held in a removable cage which makes the potentially awkward job of fitting new cards easier.
They eventually moved on, but it made for a very awkward few seconds.
They were, and still are, the gods of geek rock, and their songs have become anthems for the alienated, awkward, and lonely.
Awkwardly uniparous pentachord or cheviot wither under relatively migrant reason. MP3Board.com
Your inner Jack Nicholson pounds around in circles in your head, swearing and shuddering, decrying your overuse of the word snagged and your repetitive and/or awkward sentence structure. Where I work...
The contratenor, usually moving in 2nds, 4ths and 5ths, lends a quasi-harmonic feeling to the music, but sometimes produces awkward combinations with the other voices. Archive 2009-05-01
He thought of Nora Costello; but he could not bring himself to ask her to share the narrow limits of her one room with this be-furbelowed young person, and then it would involve so many awkward explanations. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
It's also awkward to use. The Sun
One of his legs was bloodied and bent at an awkward angle because of a clearly broken bone.
I hope the police don't ask any awkward questions.
Everyone wants peace, no one wants war, and if you aren't prepared to march then you're either gung ho or deliberately awkward.
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
We found efforts at forced collaboration awkward and unnatural for most organizations.
Film titles, like Andy Kaufman's record, jerking backwards and forwards awkwardly, move between fact and fantasy, real and imagined worlds.
Seles' game is not suited to fast grass courts and she is handicapped by her awkward two-handed volleying style, where she approaches the net as though about to bludgeon someone with a frying pan.
I was asked to enter some of my favourite music, so being deliberately awkward, I entered four of my less well known favourites, first among them being Lucy Woodward.
Because their bodies begin to grow so rapidly during adolescence, teenagers often feel awkward, self-conscious, uncoordinated, embarrassed and even confused.
By making it dashed awkward to get to. Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally heads sit oddly on their bodies, and swollen limbs meet their trunks awkwardly.
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
During the break, Ms Flynn was left to awkwardly sit down beside the Taoiseach and exchange small talk - chit-chat, you might say.
She feels a little gawky and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
‘I love the awkwardness of a brainstorm, the tenseness when different ideas come together,’ she says.
The words fell out of his mouth in a clumsy, awkward fashion that instantly made him regret talking at all.
He took over at an awkward time. Times, Sunday Times
Waiting for her to pick up was awkward and hard, but eventually the phone clicked over and a man's voice answered.
It was beastly awkward certainly; there I could quite agree with him, and this was the only sympathy he extracted from me.
The English subtitles, on the other hand, are utterly inept - full of awkwardness and solecisms.
We did not want to be awkward and put any unreasonable obstructions in the way.
The tensions between the trio are given natural awkwardness, matched by juddery, low-fi camerawork. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of an entente cordiale of mutual admiration, he has faced awkward questions about Afghanistan troop levels, Turkey-phobia, and the French nuclear arsenal.
She was timid and shy, and a little awkward. Emily Fox-Seton
I had been lying awkwardly and my leg had gone numb.
At this stage, my dancing is still awkward, rigid, uncoordinated, an embarrassment, to be frank.
But there is also a perceived need on the part of governments to build up a momentum in public opinion both to justify its actions and bury awkward questions.
It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary.
He walks with an awkward gait, his right leg turned out from birth, and he is sharp and selfish and snorts; a bachelor alumni of the finishing school for quiet men.
I was also much more awkward back then than even now (and I'm still very awkward today) ... anyway, I made a move on her, which promptly was rejected (remember, awkward), and sent me into three years of depression (aka unrequited love) ... Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
He was embarrassed, which made him awkward.
A small smile played across his lips as he saw her standing awkwardly by the door.
After that, an awkward silence once again filled the room, until finally Lia finally blurted it out.
Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc.
Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward.
They're home movies, with all the cheerfulness and awkwardness the term implies, except that the home is Obersalzberg, Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where Hitler is seen giving a persuasive—unless you pay close attention—impression of a full human being. 'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale
The very next day, Mrs. Rocard hosted a luncheon for the delegate spouses, which would have been very awkward if her husband had been ousted the night before. Barbara Bush
I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Despite this, he still towers over me, and I feel like the baby of the family as he walks over and gives me a quick, awkward hug.
Remove old, weak branches at ground level, and prune out any dying shoots or branches that are taking off in awkward directions.
`No way are you giving my number out over the Tannoy in a train station,' she said, folding her arms awkwardly. THE MANANA MAN
He flexes his six-pack in awkward contrapposto, while holding a leash attached to a man on all fours wearing a dog collar. Latest 'Aida' in London Fails to Deliver
In an attack it was awkward to move and set-up - but in defence it was a very dangerous weapon for anyone attacking a position defended by Vickers machine guns.
She liked to dance but felt awkward if someone was watching her.
This is a hybrid, somewhere between a phone and a tablet, earning it the rather awkward name 'phablet'. Times, Sunday Times
Cutting a curved edge into large paving units always looks awkward to me. Times, Sunday Times
The dog rose awkwardly to his feet and licked the man's hand excitedly.
It would have been awkward with them parading around pretending to be chickens or robots. The Sun
Crunching awkwardly over the broken glass (her father's shoes were like flippers on her feet) she peered down at the brick and saw that there was a piece of paper wrapped around it.
That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
In mounted combat their prime weapons were bow and arrow and lance rather than the awkward and uncertain trade musket.
These are awkward and slow, like university tutorials on the nature of consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin.
The researchers were regarded by some people as the police, asking awkward but justifiable questions. Times, Sunday Times
It was less awkward, less embarrassing and it was handier. Times, Sunday Times
For many managers, passing judgment on another human being is an awkward exercise at best, a breeding ground for rancor and hostility at worst.
In spite of the awkward questions the minister never let his guard fall for a moment.
People keep saying it's this awkward union, but it's a great junction of two fashion superstars.
Who speaks first - the maddening thing is that the person on the left always has to speak first, which is often very awkward. Times, Sunday Times
That is not to say awkward moments have been banished. Times, Sunday Times
They always seemed a little awkward with each other, a bit stiff and formal.
It's an awkward corner to drive round, so take it slowly.
The strained friendship has made for some awkward moments on the stand.
You don't want a pack that 's too heavy or awkward to tuck away.
Perched awkwardly atop each tree was a scruffy but huge Californian condor.
But as Rice tumbled into the end zone, he landed awkwardly.
Between the movie we'd just seen and the movie about to be made, we both felt awkward and self-conscious, as if we were auditioning for the roles of ourselves.
See: 'By the by, what a miserable language is our English in some respects; so awkward, so incompact! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
So far, there has been little interest in setting finer limits because the procedure is awkward and expensive to manage.
It was an awkward fit - a confectionery business that was part of a pharmaceuticals giant. Times, Sunday Times
She hobbled in her awkward leg brace as she came to her next table.

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