How To Use Gawky In A Sentence
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Since I was an awkward teenager who was built like a twig with hips and growing out a perm from the part of the '90s that wouldn't let the' 80s die, you can imagine how excellent things like stretch jeans -- now called "jeggings" -- looked on my gawky, unevenly developing frame.
Jamie Frevele: A Second Chance at the '90s!
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Two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage guys are talking to two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage girls.
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The new computer model has sloped geeky shoulders and a long gawky neck.
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Are you prepared to wait while a gawky young subject grows to maturity and the stature your composition requires?
The Education of a Gardener
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So I went out for lunch today with a group of friends and their friends and was disturbed to find myself feeling defensive and edgy which dragged me back about ten years to gawky teenage years of perpetual embarrassment.
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Lee is full of adolescent pride - gawky, gormless and increasingly angry.
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Elle magazine, whose then editor, Sally Brampton, later recalled the gawky teenager as
Mail & Guardian Online
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And as usual, I turned into a goofy, gawky, tongue-tied idiot.
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With all the excitable glee of a slightly gawky teenager, she waves the bouquet above her head, showing it off to the rest of us like a trophy, the years visibly slipping away.
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She constantly insisted that her height and slender limbs made her gawky and awkward, and for lack of a mirror had never seen the large blue eyes that were so captivating.
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Chris was nearly eighteen and though he was tall, filled out with spiky black hair and handsome features, he still felt awkward, gawky, and ugly.
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I did feel awkward and gawky.
The Sun
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The coltish Henderson, whose gawky movement can disguise his skill, and Downing both acquitted themselves well but the new boys had nothing to do with Liverpool's equaliser.
Newcomers help Liverpool regain their old swagger | Richard Williams
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Now to be called gawky when he thought the gesture was particularly graceful, was indeed discouraging.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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With a gawky, clunky gait Magic lurches slowly across the yard.
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The problem lies with the girls he chooses, as he shows a distinct preference for beautiful, if slightly gawky, younger women who aren't terribly self-confident.
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Transformed here into a gawky, convincing autistic individual, she is mesmerizing.
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I did feel awkward and gawky.
The Sun
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A gawky chap with a ponytail, rarely ever seen in a suit, he wanted to be different from those tough guys at the big anonymous corporate conglomerations.
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We had a week of short walks, drawing, filming and photography with snow petrels and gawky looking skua birds as our neighbours.
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He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
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Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
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Some painters – Chantal Joffe, Elizabeth Peyton – have been inspired by the gawky, wry and caricatural aspects of her work; others by the expressiveness and mystery.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice
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She feels a little gawky and awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
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James R. Gaines recalls the gawky adolescent governments of General Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, who were leading their countries in parallel revolutions all For Liberty and Glory (Norton).
Hot Type
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But I do think she overgeneralizes Stevens's reference to the "scholar, separately dwelling," who "Poured forth the fine fins, the gawky beaks, the personalia,/Which, as a man feeling everything, were his" to mean the academic scholar of the sort we find in American universities.
Literary Study
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Local wineries fell into this trap as well, resulting in gawky, disjointed wines that did both the grape and the region a disservice.
The New York Cork Report:
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He and his wife lived upstairs, and in the drawing and dining rooms, which had each French windows opening on the lawn, and all about the ground floor generally, Jessica, who was now a lean and lined and baldish but still very efficient and energetic old woman, kept her three cows and a multitude of gawky hens.
The War in the Air
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Her estranged grandmother insists on lovingly transforming her from gawky teen into beautiful royalty.
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Those who didn't know him mistook him for a gawky teenager, though in point of fact he was twenty-nine.
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During those days, those gawky, gainless, unadmired days, in which he had wandered about the lanes of Guestwick as his only amusement, and had composed hundreds of rhymes in honour of Lily Dale which no human eye but his own had ever seen, he had come to regard himself as almost a burden upon the earth.
The Small House at Allington
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At that time I was a gawky 18-year-old, from a small town - unused to and unaware of the big sophisticated city.
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He's intelligent, but gawky and socially inept, unable to communicate with anyone other than his family.
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They're essentially gawky adolescents engaged in self-discovery.
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a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
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Donelle Ruwe, now an English professor at Northern Arizona University, grew up terribly gawky, a teen with glasses, a back brace and, yes, even headgear.
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When she was 15, she was spotted in Covent Garden by a model scout and signed up for a shoot with Elle magazine, whose then editor, Sally Brampton, later recalled the gawky teenager as "a bird of paradise".
Why doesn't Naomi Campbell want to testify about her 'blood diamond'?
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A gawky chap with a ponytail, rarely ever seen in a suit, he wanted to be different from those tough guys at the big anonymous corporate conglomerations.
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TV producers adore him, and he possesses that slightly gawky indie rock star look, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are you prepared to wait while a gawky young subject grows to maturity and the stature your composition requires?
The Education of a Gardener
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But it was, you know, teenaged boys don't get a lot of good press these days and it's really a tribute to them and all their kind of gawky, smelly wonderfulness.
CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Author Discusses Book Examining Modern Motherhood - May 14, 2000
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The hero of 'Driving Lessons' is a gawky , artistic Christian teen...
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I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches ....
A Modern Utopia
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She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
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Teenagers are known for their gawky prejudices, which tend to change once they get into the real world.
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As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library and devoured books, and not just the dirty ones either.
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Are you prepared to wait while a gawky young subject grows to maturity and the stature your composition requires?
The Education of a Gardener
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Then he calls a gawky, red-haired chap, that stood good six-feet two:
The Book of Humorous Verse
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Are you prepared to wait while a gawky young subject grows to maturity and the stature your composition requires?
The Education of a Gardener
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She was a gawky, gangly teenager, her teeth in rail-track braces, on only her second trip to the capital.
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The gawky Raven girl who had danced an eightsome reel with Ellis turned out to be the third daughter of an earl.
Come To Grief
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They say he's no good at anything -- a harmless mafflin; he was a long gaumless gawky when he went awa," said Richard Turnbull.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3
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Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
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'The last I saw of him he was dancing an eightsome with that gawky Raven girl.
Come To Grief
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Jacqueline du Pre was a gawky 20 year-old with a dazzling smile when she stepped into Kingsway Hall, Holborn, on August 19, 1965 to find Sir John Barbirolli on the rostrum and the London Symphony Orchestra in murmurous mood.
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It's love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye – and the feeling is mutual.
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Not even the gawky years of adolescence would alter it.
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His only allies are his nerdlinger best friends, nebbishy Neal and the unspeakably gawky Bill.
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As for the town of Brighton, it's what I would call a gawky piece of London.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
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As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library.
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And he does this all while staggering about the stage tripping over things in gaily-stockinged feet (yes, I have a soft spot for gawky boys in colorful socks), fussing with the mix, swapping instruments on the fly, and -- in the grand tradition of Bowie and Byrne -- dancing like an utter spaz.
The short answer is, go.
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Gawky, who by this time had got a lieutenancy in the army, and such
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Before her, he was just a gawky bloke with immensely educated feet and a stunning capacity, honed by honest graft at training, to come up with lethally accurate strikes from a dead ball.
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He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
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I might be the gawky gap-toothed kid who's not cool like everyone else at school, but as long as I like myself I'll be fine.
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However, awkwardness is not a condition that is limited to gawky teens who haven't grown into their feet yet.
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I might be the gawky gap-toothed kid who's not cool like everyone else at school, but as long as I like myself I'll be fine.
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Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-colored hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went.
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Filled with uncommon self-belief and undaunted by his tall and gawky appearance, he sought out the Royal Theatre and tried to get a break as an actor, a dancer or a playwright.
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She's not beautiful; in fact, she's rather odd-looking with her big eyes and gawky mannerisms.
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By her own admission, she was a gangly, gawky youngster who hated school and struggled to do well academically.
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She feels a little gawky and awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a ‘shy, gawky, skinny’ young man, Wilson relied on alcohol to disinhibit him.
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After every celebration of their maturity, they revert to gawky, chippy adolescents until the next time they put on a party for the world.
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I went to the Eagle in Atlanta and I felt like some kind of gawky white heron or an egret or something in a cave full of bears.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Waiting for Wankette
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Chris was nearly eighteen and though he was tall, filled out with spiky black hair and handsome features, he still felt awkward, gawky, and ugly.
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The tall, gawky, moon-faced 23-year-old Southerner in corduroy trousers had a lot in common with George.
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I just wanted to be like everyone else: one of the short girls who was good at doing cartwheels, graceful and cute as a kitten as opposed to a huge gawky awkward giraffe such as myself.
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I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth.
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Won't I make a fool of myself and instead of looking fantastic, I'd end up looking like a tramp with gawky looking eyes.
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Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
