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Example sentences for: awkward

How can you use “awkward” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This leaves us in the awkward position of wanting, but not being able, to tell her to go away (or at least to cool her jets) or being inexcusably rude to others.
because that is what you've made yourself, and this would end the awkward conversations.
William Burroughs said that words are an around-the-world, ox-cart way of doing things, awkward instruments, eventually to be laid aside.
An expressed concern of some of the military product developers was that the weight of the LSTAT pan and the configuration of the LSTAT as dictated by the size constraints to fit in military aircraft would make the LSTAT awkward to use during patient care.
In addition, there are times when it is awkward and illogical to use a male metaphor for a woman.