Sentence examples for clumsy around from inspiring English sources

I am desperately awkward and clumsy around people I'd like to impress.

On "Home Improvement" Mr. Allen played the star of a DIY television show who was clumsy around his own house.

I smiled at strangers and said, "You have a nice day!" I pretended not to be clumsy around the hot public-school boys who came to taste different flavors and left without buying anything.

On the other hand, my wife feels that I'm just as foolish and clumsy around pussy as ever.

Patrons wait interminably for a ride, then endure malodorous interiors, rude drivers, the clumsy fumbling around for cash, drivers who never have the right amount of change and so forth.

But she's not too defensive to notice the charms of Finn, the not-dead boy, even if she's too guileless at the start to realize she's attracted to him, merely thinking instead that Finn "fit so easily in his body, unlike the other, clumsy boys around".

The legs were solely controlled by the subject's mind, negating the need for the slow and often clumsy physical work-arounds built into current robotic prosthesis, and allowing the device to be used by even the fully paralyzed.

The crowd is loving a demo of a game called Clumsy that lets players mess around with a cute ninja character.

Why had I been so clumsy and nervous around a harmless boy?

The Monkees created a world in which witty, good-hearted youth do battle with the humorless, clumsy social order around them -- just as the Beatles did in their two films.

Modern office culture — with its unwritten rules of behavior, its fluid and socially demanding work spaces — can be hostile territory for autistic people, who do better in predictable environments and who tend to be clumsy at shaping their priorities around other people's requirements.