Example sentences for: clumsily

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

  • Dechorionated embryos can swim clumsily when prodded.

  • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the descent into anarchy of much of the former Soviet sturgeon fishery, the leaders of the free world have also become the primary market for inedible caviar processed from sturgeon caught by Russian and Kazakh poachers and clumsily salted in clandestine plants by shady post-Soviet capitalists.

  • Cynics groaned that Hitchens was aiming at Clinton but has clumsily shot Blumenthal instead.

  • The film unfolds in flashbacks, as Ellen is interviewed by a district attorney about the circumstances of her mother's death, but the framing device doesn't generate any suspense, and the linking scenes are so clumsily overwritten that the woman might be talking to her therapist.

  • The larger truths are all there, and some of the smaller ones, too--like the idea that Nixon's paranoia would extend even to his dog (another Checkers), or that Woodward and Bernstein might seem as vain and as clumsily ambitious as the felons they're pursuing.


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