Example sentences for: clunky

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

  • In the '50s, we taunted the clunky cars of the U.S.S.R. for their farm-wagon squareness; now we drive cool SUVs.

  • Anyone who's ever read Al Gore's Earth in the Balance knows that Gore's formidable intelligence is a clunky suit of armor.

  • Overlooking journalist Kinder's occasionally clunky prose, reviewers are enraptured by his page-turning account of an 1857 steamer wreck and the eccentric scientist who recovers $1 billion worth of gold from it.

  • Dogma is the first time that Smith--whose clunky direction in Chasing Amy (1997) did his skillful script no favors--seems interested in moving the camera, composing the frame, editing, etc.

  • While critics find the ex-basketball star irresistibly likable, his show "is a crashing bore" (Marvin Kitman, Newsday ). His monologues are judged clunky and not funny, and "his mode of interviewing consists mainly of salivating over guests for being on the show" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times ). It uses the same A-list of stars who appear on Leno and Letterman, leading critics to wonder, "How many talk shows does any viewer need?"


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