Example sentences for: clumsy

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

  • One does not necessarily expect literary elegance in a book written by an academic, but there is no need to be clumsy.

  • The best example of this that comes to mind is the clumsy taunt aimed at Dukakis: "Governor, that answer was about as clear as Boston Harbor."

  • With their lovely fur, clumsy movements, and goofy faces, they seem the embodiment of innocence, childishness, and vulnerability.

  • Since she has not, until this moment, shown interest one way or another in her inherited religion, her sudden zeal to abandon it seems clumsy on Begley's part.

  • And anyway, these millennial demons are a particularly clumsy lot, far less canny and elegant than, say, Rosemary's Baby 's John Cassavetes, whose earthly weapon of choice was spiked chocolate mousse.


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