Sentence examples for awkward bird from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the book does what the awkward bird Nixon clearly loves cannot: it soars.

The heron is an awkward bird in flight, and the Heron Man on the path leading to the Chinese Pavilion would do well to tell the herons so, seeing as how he's always babbling away at them like that.

And what does he think of the awkward bird Benjamin Franklin thought should be our national symbol (and which still may be, at least figuratively, if we don't shape up)?

Confronting his wife's question "What have we been so busy doing that we forgot to have the baby?," he winds himself through contortions meant to suggest profound contemplation but more like the agonies of a large, awkward bird.

It's not quite like the awkward birds-and-bees conversation your parents have with you when you are thirteen and no one ever mentions again.

I still feel like the same awkward bird-like creature who dealt with boys barking at me and calling me Captain of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee.

But whether you experience formal sex ed, awkward "birds and the bees" talks, candid conversations with friends or all or none of the above, it's all theoretical until you're actually doing it -- which can make for some surprises along the way.

As an awkward, flightless bird on land, the Great Auk overcame this challenge as an agile swimmer.

The legs were powerful, but were set so far back that walking on land was probably awkward -- hesperornithiform birds probably spent almost all their time in the water, except, presumably, the breeding and egg-laying season.

He could hear the sound of his feet like awkward skittering birds against the pavement, each step twitching in his spine.

Unfortunately, they are marred by awkward, inexplicable collages of birds, cut from magazines.