Example collocations logo

Awkward in sentence

595 examples of Awkward in a sentence

So imagine this scenario: I walk into one of your businesses, looking very awkward and pathetic, with a copy of my C.V. which I've covered in coffee, and I ask the receptionist to plug in this USB key and print me a new one.
So I started tracking things like really stupid, awkward, sexual remarks; bad vocabulary; the number of times a man forced me to high-five him.
We have decades of experience with our NGOs and with our government entities, and there's an awkward reality.
The awkward reality is we're not making fast enough progress.
And there would be an awkward silence at the table.
It's so profound in its augmentation, that when a normal, healthy person wears the device for 40 minutes and then takes it off, their own biological legs feel ridiculously heavy and awkward.
He has difficulty starting a conversation, feels awkward, and when he gets nervous, he actually shuts down.
And it was a bit awkward and uncomfortable and it totally kills the vibe.
Moderator: Now, would it be awkward if I asked you a follow-up question about your erotic fantasies?
In that first reunion, it was very awkward and tense moments, and to lessen the tension, we decided to go for a walk.
I know some of you are out there, I know because I have some white friends in particular that will say, "You have no idea how awkward I am.
I was awkward, insecure, and I hated it.
There's a big family, there's a very beautiful tree, and I make these pictures with this very large, extremely cumbersome, very awkward technical plate film camera.
The winner to a game the other kids couldn't play, I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered, tightroping between awkward boy and apologetic girl, and when I turned 12, the boy phase wasn't deemed cute anymore.
He believed that autism and autistic traits are common and always have been, seeing aspects of this continuum in familiar archetypes from pop culture like the socially awkward scientist and the absent-minded professor.
My personality switched from being shy and awkward to being defiant and cursing out a storm.
Stiff legged, with long, lumbering steps, very slow and awkward.
I got so annoyed and obsessed with the unreality of these images, which look nothing like my life, that I recently decided to shoot and star in a parody series of stock photos that I hoped the world would start to use just showing the really awkward reality of going back to work when your baby's food source is attached to your body.
It's his role to be the awkward stranger.
And what Brian Eno came to realize was, yes, we need to run the stupid experiments, we need to deal with the awkward strangers, we need to try to read the ugly fonts.
Like anyone else performing such an awkward task for the first time, he did horribly.
These stresses can be things like carrying weight, or sitting in an awkward position.
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward.
This could mean avoiding complex clauses that are hard to parse in real time, making changes to avoid awkward pronounciation, or removing sounds to make speech faster.
The more I feel that hum, the more this strange, quivering, uncocooned, awkward, brand new, alive non-titan feels like me.
We feel awkward and shameful talking about it.
After some awkward silence, he goes, "Have you forgotten your name?"
It can be awkward to talk to someone on the street; you don't know how they're going to respond.
And one of the things I discovered was that my treatment of this machine was more than just an awkward moment in my living room, that in a world where we're increasingly integrating robots into our lives, an instinct like that might actually have consequences, because the first thing that I discovered is that it's not just me.
They're considered awkward or rude.
BackNext