Sentence examples for awkward calling from inspiring English sources

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The "Now You See Me" star was super awkward, calling her out for writing questions on her hand and referring to Morgan Freeman as simply "Freeman".

But the challenge is: though you still have friends and former colleagues back at the university, you feel awkward calling on any of them so many years later to help get you in the door for the new dean position you saw listed.

If you want to talk to them outside of MySpace, but they don't sign onto AIM or you feel awkward calling them, you may want to try weaning them off MySpace as well.

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Whether Mr. Craig leaves or not, the discussion of his fate has grown so persistent and the situation so awkward that one supporter calls it "the Greg Craig watch".

If you knew her before you were with the kids' father, then it will be less awkward: call her, and ask how everything is, etc.

After awkward phone calls the Taliban were persuaded to remove the offending plaque and take down the flag.

For those of us who live and die by our inboxes, it can be tough to keep track of the contacts that are abroad, which can lead to some awkward phone calls (I've accidentally called CEOs of startups located in the UK at around 4 in the morning, their time).

The women made awkward calls to relatives and friends.

The International Monetary Fund delivered a blow to George Osborne by downgrading its UK growth forecast for 2013 and issuing a politically awkward call for the Chancellor to ease up on his austerity programme.

Ten days later, Duguid wrote a letter of resignation to her law firm — "Dear guys, It's not the altitude, but I'm not coming back" — placed an awkward call to her boyfriend, and set out to explore Nepal with a couple of anthropologists she had just met, while Alford finished his assignment.

You can just picture the awkward phone call after that news broke: 'Aw, c'mon, Dad!' 'Sorry, Son, but I gotta call them like I see them.' It's bad enough to have others toss your chances of winning under a bus, but when it comes from dear old Dad, it's really got to hurt".

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