Sentence examples for making it awkward from inspiring English sources

You are assuming and encouraging a positive response; making it awkward for the student to respond negatively.

Retiring presidents are kept on as chairmen or advisers, making it awkward for the new guy to undo his predecessor's mistakes.

His conduct is all the worse because he is your supervisor, making it awkward for you to criticize his driving, and tough for you to decline his demand that you share the cost of his ticket.

Things now look very different, making it awkward that Pesto bowed out for an extended break this weekend when politics is particularly turbulent and transitional: a Tory leadership campaign that is also a contest for No 10's keys, political sunset for the Bullingdon boys, mutinous Labour MPs mulling a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit and its myriad repercussions.

At present north-to-south traffic on West Street, both pedestrian and vehicular, is closed off from Chambers Street to the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, making it awkward for residents to drive or walk to destinations outside Battery Park City itself.

"They are more than capable of producing the right things at the right time and sometimes under a bit of pressure, when the opposition are making it awkward to do certain things, you are going to come up with a few errors".

Wonderful though the scroll wheel may be, its actual placement makes it awkward to use as a third mouse button.

That probably would make it awkward".

And it makes it awkward to jaywalk".

Here are nine things that might make it awkward.

Don't make it awkward; it's ok to look away once in a while.