Example sentences for: awkwardness

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

  • of Cruelty , for example, shows a number of women apparently encased in glass coffins; an exceedingly cryptic stew of geometric and biomorphic elements is called The Sexual Awkwardness

  • Her mother lives just long enough to inculcate in her (unjustifiably) a sense of her own awkwardness.

  • A deeper affinity seems to have drawn Morton to them, ghostwriting fees aside: Here were two massively unself-aware individuals who had maneuvered themselves into positions of national awkwardness, women who were all but impossible to defend.

  • Finn's awkwardness keeps him inoffensive, but it thoroughly obviates the dramatic arc that's the whole point of Dickens' novel: If success doesn't change Finn for the worse, then his rejection of the high life doesn't entail the same kind of sacrifices--or come as a consequence of some harrowing epiphany.

  • (The British practice using a politically correct plural pronoun of reference for a singular antecedent is followed, explaining their job in the last example; the awkwardness could have been spared by a change to directors .)


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