Example sentences for: clunky

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

  • Biggest minus: the clunky musical numbers, which "hang like cinder blocks" around the neck of the production (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Critics also complain that the movie is short on emotional power, partly because "it tries to do too much" and be all things to all audiences (Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune ). (David Edelstein says the film "feels as if it might have been called Indiana Moses and the Temple of Doom ." Click to read the rest of his review in Slate .)

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

  • This clunky mistaken-identity comedy about escaped cons who impersonate gay pageant directors doesn't even make sense on its own low farcical terms; it's mostly one lame homo joke after another.

  • It's Version 1.0--expensive, a bit clunky and, according to previews, not really pleasant enough for pleasure reading.

  • 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.


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