Use "gawky" in a sentence
gawky example sentences
gawky
1. “Look, most of them didn’t care about some gawky pasty white spacer kid who could barely
2. The gawky man in the powder blue suit who'd been reading the Bible aloud at the demonstration turned out to be the minister
3. Andrew had befriended the gawky
4. Behind him Razumihin strode in gawky and awkward, shamefaced and red as a peony, with an utterly crestfallen and ferocious expression
5. As he loomed over the lovebirds, a gawky obstacle, Mom was obviously weighing whether to say anything about the wine in his hand; he’d never drunk alcohol in front of her before, not counting the Manischewitz at Passover
6. To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair
7. Warren had listened with a sweet and ready sympathy that had caused James quite to forget a certain stinging snubbing he had received from the selfsame lady, because once, back in the dark ages—before Nancy had opened her blue eyes on this naughty world—when he was a gawky, freckle-faced boy of sixteen, he had dared to walk home from church with Mildred, the eldest daughter of the house of Warren