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How to use awkwardly in a sentence

21 example sentences · adverb

Awkwardly means in an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination. Example: “The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.”

Examples of awkwardly by meaning

adverbIn an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.

  • A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in The New York Times

More sentences with awkwardly

  • The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.From the entry sit
  • Cubarsí’s shot bounces awkwardly in front of him but there’s not a lot of power behind it.2026 July 10, Billy Munday, “Spain 2-1 Belgium: World Cup 2026 quarter-final”, in the Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry poacher
  • He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Dial Press, →ISBN. From the entry trepidatious
  • A bit like meeting on Tinder these days and awkwardly mumbling how you met your Tinderella.2014, Rebecca Dooley, "Peculiar pictorial pairings", The Courier (Newcastle University), Issue 1284, 10 February 2014, 10 February 2014…. From the entry Tinderella
  • Boston awkwardly tried to cut in on her conversation with the tough-looking Chance, Mr.2007 January 15, Virginia Heffernan, “He-Men Strut Stuff to Romance New York”, in New York Times. From the entry nerdism
  • Awkwardly, Jenny managed to open the front door and womanhandle Brian into the hallway.2001, Keith Spratley, TimeJack. From the entry womanhandle
  • It was twenty miles east of Finch’s Landing, awkwardly inland for such an old town.1960, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, New York: Harper Perennial Classics, published 2002, pages 147–148. From the entry nimble-wittedness
  • Miss Gimblet nodded, and the curate, desperately conscious of his stockinged feet, advanced and shook hands awkwardly.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 43. From the entry stockinged
  • " 'E does all the plannin' an' that, y'know," said Marketer, awkwardly.1906, Edwin William Pugh, The Spoilers, London: George Newnes Ltd, page 162. From the entry mivvy
  • On the ledge, the guillemots shuffle awkwardly about on their tarsi, the long bone connecting the ‘ankle’ to the feet.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 99. From the entry tarsus
  • Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.2013, Gardner, Smart and Smarter, →ISBN. From the entry full-handed
  • Draping a cloak round his crooked figure, he leaned on his cane and shuffled awkwardly to the door.2012, Josephine Cox, Don't Cry Alone, →ISBN. From the entry let's be having you
  • This highlights the awkwardly linked histories of transfolk and the gay and lesbian community due to historical and geographical coincidences.2010, Kath Browne, Catherine J. Nash, Queer Methods and Methodologies, →OCLC, page 140. From the entry transfolk
  • They bonjoured back and stood there awkwardly.2005, James H Irwin, Mokanshan: A Tale of Wallis Simpson's Naughty Shanghai Postcards. From the entry bonjour
  • Still huddled together, bundlesome in cold-weather gear, they moved awkwardly to the personnel hatch, which on command opened and deployed the short escalator.2016, Keith Laumer, Star Colony. From the entry bundlesome
  • Somehow seeing that small streak of blood made the way she felt inside seem less out of control, less desperate, less awkwardly, gnawingly painful.2007, Steven James, The Pawn, page 121. From the entry gnawingly
  • "You’ve been caught in The Honey Trap," said the poutsome models awkwardly, assuming, for no discernible reason, a Charlie’s Angels-style "action" pose.2003, The Honey Trap is far from the bee's Knees. From the entry poutsome
  • Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow floatie in the public pool of our conversations.1998, Debra Shukles, “Weighing in as a Feminist”, in Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, editors, Talking Up: Young Women’s Take on…. From the entry floaty
  • He does look a bit odd, what with those parachute ears and the round, mad, yellow, staring pop-eyes and the oversize forepaws hung so awkwardly close to his chest.1968 May 24, Michael Mok, “The Aye-Aye, Man’s Imperiled Cousin”, in George P. Hunt, editor, Life, volume 64, number 21, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry aye-aye
  • The music of his speech was pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic, as if the soul of an Oxford don had been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a boy.2015, Steve Silberman, “Introduction”, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New…. From the entry don

Meaning of awkwardly

  1. adverb In an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.

Full definition of awkwardly

Questions about awkwardly in a sentence

How do you use awkwardly in a sentence?
Awkwardly is used as an adverb. For example: “The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.”
What is a short sentence with awkwardly?
“Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.”
What does awkwardly mean?
Awkwardly means in an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.

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