Sentence examples for an awkward one from inspiring English sources

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But his stop-and-frisk analogy was an awkward one, coming on the heels of a widely publicized judge's ruling that the police practice is being used unconstitutionally in New York City.

What might have once been a bad inning turned into just an awkward one — not nearly enough to shake the Yankees on their way to a 5-3 victory.

The line between horror and humour is an awkward one to walk, and Truss reaches a little lazily for pop cultural references on the way.

She went on to describe her first encounter with Mr. Romney in 2012, an awkward one that, to her, summed up the party's problems.

And an awkward one.

An obvious point to make is that it's always going to be an awkward one.

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In 2007's Knocked Up, which focuses on a couple who conceive after an awkward one-night stand, the only two people who mention the word – her mother, his flatmate – are derided as heartless.

(As Amy Davidson laments, the schools will then be closed on Thursday and Friday for Rosh Hashana, making it an awkward one-day week).

His choice came down to "an awkward one-bedroom or a more elegant studio," Mr. Glazer said.

Although his own marriage to Erica, an English professor, is ostensibly as passionate as it ever was, Leo has an awkward one-night stand with Bill's estranged first wife and lusts, for years, after Violet, Bill's voluptuous second wife.

A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "Wales doesn't need an awkward, one-off blind date with a shadow cabinet that has very little understanding of the needs of our economy and communities.

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