Example sentences for: awkwardly

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

  • More awkwardly, the aide would be forced to play the seamy role of procurer.

  • It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .

  • for the everyday" (Daniel Mendelson, the New York Review of Books ). The problem is that the mixing of this traditional story with King's trademark bone-chilling horror results in a novel that straddles the two genres somewhat awkwardly.

  • Now "auction" invokes eBay and the sort of human progress that means an unsociable collector of original animation cells from prewar Warner Bros. cartoons will now have even fewer occasions to socialize awkwardly with others, in their pretty-boy footwear.

  • Tentatively, awkwardly, he reaches for the television remote control and taps it.


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