Sentence examples for rather ungainly from inspiring English sources

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Clothes maketh the man – even the big, rather ungainly man.

The wagon concept is based on the styling of the rather ungainly Panamera sedan.

She looks rather ungainly for a dancer, though she can execute a perfect headstand at a moment's notice.

And in spite of sometimes straining into a rather ungainly Pilates crouch for emphasis, Cameron also has charm.

The rare instances of figural composition from mid-8th-century France are usually rather ungainly copies of late antique prototypes (e.g., the Gospels of Gundohinus, Laon, 754).

Having landed, it floated serenely amongst the gulls and little egrets, which appeared tiny by comparison with this huge and rather ungainly bird.

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Why not use twine to weave an overhead web from which to hang things, rather than ungainly wood rafters?

I hooked, upper-cutted, jabbed – all the while dancing like a rather large and ungainly bee.

In all likelihood the disapprobation was directed at Nijinsky's eccentric and ungainly choreography, rather than Stravinsky's efforts.

It's just too ungainly and, well, rather ugly.

It has to have been somewhat frightening for Yang to bare himself (literally), his pain and his self-loathing to an audience that public; it took some chutzpah to say that people rather like himself are socially ungainly, and then to set out to figure out why.

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