The phrase "awkward incident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an uncomfortable or embarrassing event that occurred.
Example: "During the meeting, there was an awkward incident when someone accidentally spilled coffee on the presentation materials."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable situation" or "embarrassing event".
I also remembered an awkward incident at one of my lectures when he was four years old.
Or take the small but awkward incident on the day when Mustapha Mansary, a villager, came to testify.
We were invited to stay by occupying troops of the US 3rd Infantry Division after an awkward incident in which they almost killed us.
Those moments required significant clean-up from Rubio's press team, but he had an ally on Wednesday as he and Trump laughed off the awkward incident in nine tweets following the incident.
The White House has made it clear that this awkward incident was a spat among friends -- not a crisis or a major game-changer in U.S.-Israel relations.
political action committee took an awkward incident and turned it into a money-making venture with signature "Rubio" water bottles, which have brought in $125,000 since Wednesday.
Those moments are the kind of awkward incidents that would in contemporary parlance be described as "O.M.G. moments".
To avoid the sorts of awkward incidents I went through, I told her that Santa is a story people like to repeat, like Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, and that just like other stories, sometimes people like to play pretend that they're real.
It would be an odd but welcome triumph if an awkward diplomatic incident became a path to greater discussion and understanding.
Early adulthood is an awkward time for teen stars, but Swift's has been free of embarrassing incidents.
But actress Hattie Morahan, back next year as Nora in A Doll's House at the Young Vic, recalls an awkward opening night incident in Martin Crimp's The City at the Royal Court in 2008.
