gawky

How To Use gawky In A Sentence

• She feels a little gawky and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
• And he does this all while staggering about the stage tripping over things in gaily-stockinged feet (yes, I have a soft spot for gawky boys in colorful socks), fussing with the mix, swapping instruments on the fly, and -- in the grand tradition of Bowie and Byrne -- dancing like an utter spaz. The short answer is, go.
• As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library.
• As for the town of Brighton, it's what I would call a gawky piece of London. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
• His only allies are his nerdlinger best friends, nebbishy Neal and the unspeakably gawky Bill.
• Not even the gawky years of adolescence would alter it.
• It's love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye – and the feeling is mutual.
• Jacqueline du Pre was a gawky 20 year-old with a dazzling smile when she stepped into Kingsway Hall, Holborn, on August 19, 1965 to find Sir John Barbirolli on the rostrum and the London Symphony Orchestra in murmurous mood.
• 'The last I saw of him he was dancing an eightsome with that gawky Raven girl. Come To Grief
• Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.