Example sentences for: clumsy

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

  • This "lumbering and clumsy" alliance, incapable of "managing such brush fires as Kosovo," could "lose the Kosovo war in a month against the ruin of a rump state," warned columnist Charles Krauthammer.

  • Gore was also clumsy in the way he constantly invoked his close friend and partner Bill Clinton.

  • Conclusion: Trying to distinguish harassment from everyday schoolyard taunts is a clumsy but worthwhile process.

  • Though Bush's performance was otherwise clumsy and lackluster, he won by playing rope-a-dope.

  • In case you missed the Globe story, or Ted Koppel's uncharacteristically clumsy interrogation of McCain last night on Nightline , or the newspaper follow-ups today, here's what we know: In November, and again in December, McCain, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, wrote testy letters to the FCC demanding swift action on Paxson Communications' proposed acquisition of a Pittsburgh TV station.


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