Sentence examples for grow awkward from inspiring English sources

She would ask me to slow down and I'd grow awkward and tongue-tied: now, of course, I wish I'd made more effort.

Passersby grow awkward as they realize they've intruded on these helpers in their makeshift homes.

Mr Steinbrück grew awkward, Mrs Merkel not at all.

Pence reacted stiffly, and their conversation grew awkward.

My visits grew awkward, like those of my now-ex with our son.

Your complicated social life will grow less awkward with time.

It's really not all that different from the many of us who grow up awkward, often confusing our own closeted obsessions for permits of ownership.

She grows up awkward and "agonizingly shy," but she is also precocious and determined to find her way.

We grew from awkward middle schoolers to homework-crazed high schoolers at the same time Harry did.

You've chosen a favorite musician, probably in your teen years, and the relationship grows through awkward phases — nautical dress, orchestral arrangements, dodgy collections of poems.

Matters grew increasingly awkward for him, especially when it turned out that a surprising number of British sympathised with the southern cause.