Sentence examples for awkward word from inspiring English sources

Awkward word for such an elegant ­composer.

That leads into the great medium-term debate about EU membership, that awkward word "Brexit".

Mr Heald's first prizewinner struck me as a brilliantly unconventional and grammatically subtle treatment of an awkward word.

In the context of water, though, supply is also a physical concept and its maximum is fixed.Use is another awkward word.

The very fact that in English it is expressed by that awkward word committed shows that it's a qualification that plays little role in the American writing scene.

For such a beautiful concept, philanthropy, meaning "the love of humanity", is an awkward word and has some rather negative connotations of very rich people trying to avoid tax or create vanity projects.

Some flaws include the awkward word-settings in "Sugar" and "Louder Than Words," the forced rhymes in "Green Dress" ("The green green dress, 20 buttons and a strip, the green green dress, oh what a pleasure to unwrap"), and the cloying quaintness of "Sunday," a parody of the song by the same name by Stephen Sondheim.

He explained in characteristically awkward words.

Mr Wen's awkward words may have done little to calm the bereaved children.

Suddenly she is a doll, a talking doll, who can speak only a few awkward words.

And in any case, what would be more convincing, more moving, than awkward words delivered from the heart?