Example sentences for: awkwardly

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

  • The J30 was a car desperately trying to make a pretentious fashion statement, but it galumphed awkwardly in the real world of tires and asphalt.

  • She should have copped to the fact that after a single luminous, thought-provoking, and joyful coming-out episode in the spring of 1997, Ellen got lost in awkwardly orchestrated, unfunny plot developments about parents and first girlfriends.

  • But McCain's punches were awkwardly thrown--in part because the other candidates crowded the ring, keeping Bush and McCain apart--and Bush absorbed the blows with genial poise.

  • Appearing on the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, Kaufman stood awkwardly next to a turntable as the Mighty Mouse theme played, opening his mouth only to lip-sync the lyrics "Here I come to save the day."

  • Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.


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