Sentence examples for clumsy though from inspiring English sources

The phrase "clumsy though" can be used in written English
It is typically used to introduce a contrasting or unexpected element in a sentence. Example: "She managed to climb the steep cliff, clumsy though she was, and reached the top safely." In this sentence, the phrase "clumsy though she was" contrasts the protagonist's clumsiness with her success in reaching the top of the cliff.

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It nevertheless foundered on its clumsy, though not intolerable, libretto.

Or the 30 or so clumsy though earnest workers?

On Volume 1, the hybrid is tentative and a little clumsy, though it has some of the period charm of blaxploitation soundtracks.

It's slightly clumsy, though.

But some of Friend Connect's new interaction methods sound a little clumsy (though we haven't tried it out since it's not live yet).

She is very clumsy, though athletic, and will often not think before she acts.

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Its colors are more smudged, its flights of fancy clumsier, though sometimes it does register keener pangs and deeper throbs of feeling.

You'd probably still be a clumsy fool though.

The Dutchman appeared a little jaded, his touch uncharacteristically clumsy, as though the messages from what is normally an astute and quick brain were being waylaid.

Johnson's references to Hammons and Walker do seem clumsy, as though any piece about a new black artist must compare him with other, better-known black artists.

At least Ballet Theater's production, though often clumsy in construction and relentlessly jolly, is a friendly circus.

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