Sentence examples for clumsy person from inspiring English sources

"She was a very clumsy person," said Barbara Bridges, Ms. Moore's mother.

I am a clumsy person, and there simply isn't a wok large enough for me to do a stir-fry and not end up with half the ingredients over all the burners.

A clumsy person, for example, may explain why there is a stain on the carpet by confessing that he spilled the coffee, and a geneticist may account for an unusual fruit fly by claiming that there was a recombination of the parental genotypes.

The Online Etymology Dictionary would seem to agree, as a schlemiel is described as an "awkward, clumsy person," while the sort of "contemptible person" referred to in the title would seem more like the characters, one of them played by Paul Rudd, who act like jerks by giving the dinner.

It's also a body builder of sorts and is strong enough to support the weight of a clumsy person who's fallen down.

In every day life, we perceive a quick, skillful person to be very different from a quick, clumsy person.

However, the technique was felt to be clumsy, another person was always required; the anesthetic drops outdated rapidly, and were not always available in the pharmacy.

Is the person clumsy and staggering, or confident with heads high up?

But it's hampered by Mitchell's clumsy handling of third-person narration, which he's rarely used before, and a feeling that he's too busy with the story's architecture to pay much attention to the words on the page.

I managed to use it all right, but I could tell that while the tracking was good, it felt clumsy in my normal-person grip.

Am I a person who is clumsy, one to whom shame is attached, or am I a person who has a good balance?