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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:

He presents his royal nephews with an awkward choice: Charles the prince or Charles the earl.
Increasing literacy and pressures towards `correctness' led in England to spelling-pronunciations which caused speakers to restore a whole range of sounds which earlier generations had dropped, like the l in fault, vault, and soldier; the second w in awkward and the sole w in Edward; the t at the end of pageant, respect, and strict; and the d in the middle of the word London and at the end of husband.
But in other ways, the timing of the MoMA show was awkward and even potentially embarrassing.
Junior kept up an awkward canned patter, assuring me that I would be a safer person for this and that he understood my anger.
The language has a way of sorting out awkward situations, such as those created by the rather tortured “proper” examples in the first paragraph.