The phrase "awkward construction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sentence or phrase that is poorly structured or difficult to understand.
Example: "The author's use of long, convoluted sentences resulted in an awkward construction that confused many readers."
Alternatives: "clumsy phrasing" or "poorly structured sentence".
Big Joe asked why there were signs everywhere that used the awkward construction "BE BEAR AWARE".
This awkward construction will have a majority of one.An earlier attempt to form such an alliance collapsed when the CDA ruled out formal negotiations with Mr Wilders.
Those frequent shifts of focus and the script's awkward construction (the three-act play has two intermissions, one coming with less than a half-hour remaining in the show) encumber an otherwise intriguing tale.
Nor does it have the awkward construction of her unfortunate last novel, "Clock Without Hands," which is marred by the effects of McCullers's various illnesses and by its self-consciously rendered "issues": miscegenation, the New South versus the Old, homosexual love.
I use that rather awkward construction advisedly, because technically she cannot be referred to as "a gondolier", but given that she now has the legal right to steer a low-slung, highly decorated black and gold boat around the canals of Venice at a cost of roughly a thousand euros per centimetre, the lack of a title seems academic.
VanDerWerff wrote that Rachel appeared to have five different subplots, none of which came together cohesively, and that it reflected the awkward construction of the episode.
When Bosnian speakers try to articulate this distinction they have to reach for awkward constructions or terms from other languages, he explains.
As far as the Vatican was concerned, there was nothing else to be done: attempts at solving the building's physical problems had proved awkward, with construction workers trying to tiptoe around scholars, and conditions had reached a point where immediate intervention was necessary.
Awkward sentence construction.
Nonetheless, this terrifically talented actress makes you want to suspend disbelief anyway: Her evocation of an uneducated, near-deaf youngster's awkward speech construction is wholly convincing, and her innocent, yearning glances nigh heartbreaking.
Difficult, even awkward grammatical constructions and inverted metaphors can be found.
