How to Use gawky in a Sentence

gawky

adjective

• The Woods of 28 years ago was all gawky teenage promise.
  — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 11 Feb. 2020
• Like the scrawny, sixth-round pick out of Michigan, with the gawky 40-yard dash and the chip on his shoulder.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
• Yet her body — later seen naked — is a child's, thin and gawky.
  — Kristin McMurran, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• This is sort of out there, but Luke Falk is kinda skinny, a bit of a gawky athlete.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• My favorite person on the show was Maria, who sparked gawky-sweet chemistry with Vinny.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 June 2019
• As Plumb, Pappas is awkward but likable in the lead role, and her gawky charm works well with the film’s quirky approach to its story.
  — Kimber Myers, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• How else to explain the intimate, gawky tenderness with which the heads of the dead Christ and the man supporting him touch, almost in a kiss?
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Anna is blonde and tall and gawky, with braces; Maya is shorter, with a bowl cut forced on her by her mother, and a retainer.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• When a gawky teen restores a 1958 Plymouth Fury, the car takes on a life of its own and begins terrorizing those in its way.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• London wasn’t quite swinging yet, and British rock was barely emerging from its gawky teen phase.
  — Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• The moment for raabs—these gawky, uncoiffed survivors of our soul-leaching winters—is short.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, Bon Appétit, 13 Apr. 2022
• His 6-foot-6 height, which affords him a better view of where the ball must go, would be a detriment if Herbert were gawky and ponderous.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• But now, in adulthood, those former gawky adolescents are getting the last laugh.
  — Laura Neilson, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• The Sims has a slapstick sense of humor fit for gawky teen years; a Sim can get dumped in the hallway, strike a T-pose for a viral challenge, and then slink away for class in the span of a minute.
  — Wired, 16 July 2022
• Comparisons were made to Barack Obama, on the basis that the two men both had a certain gawky charm and both appeared to inspire an enormous amount of hope.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• For motorists travelling north on I-93, 50 Prospect looms in the distance like an overly tall, gawky teenager.
  — James McCown, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Other times, the tower seems more like a gawky, gentle giant, awkwardly standing on the edge of a group photo.
  — Patrick Kingsley Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• Think Smokey Robinson’s songwriting prowess, and the evolution of the Supremes from gawky teenagers to hit-making divas.
  — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2019
• The young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
• The splashy, ornate style rose to prominence around 2015, the year Gucci designer Alessandro Michele debuted a weird, gawky new look brimming with prints, frills, and colors.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Dec. 2019
• While the 11th-generation Civic has a far more streamlined body than its gawky predecessor, Honda kept the underpinnings mostly the same—and that's a good thing.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2022
• Eva Löbau plays a gawky 27-year-old teacher who arrives at a new job ready to show off her progressive pedagogical methods.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2017
• While most women aren’t used to wearing big, sometimes gawky hats, the majority of Derby-goers are sporting some type of head accessory at the track.
  — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2018
• The 32-year-old cofounder and co-CEO of Bitmain, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency mining firm, displays a strikingly reserved and gawky demeanor.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 June 2018
• For those of us who grew up with her cooking shows on public television – a TV career that began in 1963 and lasted for decades – seeing her here in all her gawky eccentricity is good for the soul.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
• Byrne's capacity for shouts, grunts and other sounds is a sort of gawky update on Brown's work, and the almost militaristic organization of the band, too, reminds of the Godfather of Soul.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• The question remains whether researchers can wrangle their gawky teenage NISQ machines into doing something useful.
  — Tom Simonite Sophia Chen, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• Here, teenagers feel like real gawky young adults, instead of the polished twenty-somethings who far exceed the attractiveness of real high schoolers in all their pubescent, hormonal glory.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 May 2020
• The play is narrated by the novel’s three youngest characters, who are all played with childlike humor, guilelessness and gawky physicality.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• Three women greeted me, three generations: an old woman at a stove, her daughter busying herself sifting maize flour, the gawky granddaughter sprawled on a wooden chair — her long legs stretched out, her feet on the arm of another chair.
  — Paul Theroux, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019

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