Sentence examples for pretty ungainly from inspiring English sources

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It's pretty ungainly, and while I feel like a cad for nay-saying a flying car, I just don't see more than a hundred people buying these things.

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These lively, somewhat ungainly outfits manage to evoke both robots and spacemen.

"Blood Done Sign My Name" is a curious, somewhat ungainly movie.

In any event, I'm okay with the somewhat ungainly finale because of what preceded it.

So after a year and a half of not having seen them, despite several invitations from us to them (more accurately, me to her) suggesting that our families get together -- we're only two towns away after all -- her reaction was pretty "awkward," i.e., not smooth or graceful, ungainly, when we bumped into each other.

"I'm watching this guy trying to fit this ungainly garment bag into the overhead bin, not a pretty sight," Mr. Chernoff explains on his site.

One place where this might not have been true was Plato's Retreat, the famous swingers club of the '70s, where, apparently, people looked pretty good -- or at least as good as was possible in that ungainly decade.

"She was very young -- only just 17 -- a tall, rather gawky creature, by no means pretty, but with a face that one remembered," Le Gallienne wrote, adding she had "the shy ungainly grace of a young colt".

"She was very young -- only just 17 -- a tall, rather gawky creature, by no means pretty, but with a face that one remembered," Le Gallienne wrote, adding she had "the shy ungainly grace of a young colt". For her audition, Ms. Hagen acted the end of the trial scene from "St.

He's humorless and ungainly, and odd-looking in his high-and-tight military haircut; she's elfin and flawlessly pretty, and unconvincing as an ex-cheerleader turned mother of two, and they don't set off the dimmest of sparks in each other.

By Ian Crouch August 16, 2016 We've come to expect elegance in Olympic victories, but Shaunae Miller's gutsy, ungainly lunge across the finish line in the women's four hundred metres reminded us that winning isn't always pretty.

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