Sentence examples for awkward greeting from inspiring English sources

Corbyn's unfortunate pat isn't the first time a politician served an awkward greeting.

With an unpleasant expression written clearly all over my face, I escaped the awkward greeting with such frustration that this was how other Latinos on campus saw me: a fellow Latina who wanted nothing to do with her own kind.

History is full of awkward greetings between world leaders.

The awkward moment: Bush has form with awkward greetings (Yo, Blair!).

A woman from the committee that had organized the event recognized Frosheiser and escorted him over to a row of folding chairs, where he exchanged awkward greetings with his ex-wife.

If we get past the initial hurdle of awkward greetings, people often tell me that they are the star of their local amateur dramatic society and if only they could just get an Equity card, they too could turn professional.

I was preparing for Georgetown University's New Student Orientation, my first official re-entry into academia and a day of assemblies and awkward greetings with a bunch of kids who would have been barely teenagers when I was spending my first weeks in Afghanistan.

Mr. Rossmer, an impish, irrepressibly grinning class clown, frequently peels off into tangents about ridiculous Jewish parents, inept answering machine greetings, awkward meet-cutes, office politics and the other little aperçus of stand-up routines.

The awkward moment: It was the greeting that had everything.

The greeting is an awkward shuffle of hunched shoulders and downcast eyes; he can't look at me, and I can't hear him.

Valcarcel said the traditional greeting is no longer awkward for her unless other foreigners are involved.