Example sentences for: clumsily

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

  • This is clumsily phrased: The identity of the "other side" is ambiguous.

  • 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 option is a crude one--all off, or all on, or clumsily choose at each site.

  • 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.

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


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