Sentence examples for slightly gauche from inspiring English sources
She genuinely does still have the slightly gauche charm of a much younger girl.
His belief in literature is attractively uncynical although his belief in poetry's life-saving quality comes across as slightly gauche.
It has been fun seeing the evolution of Gareth Southgate from likeable, slightly gauche former player to dreamboat, sage and all-round mainstream star.
The following year, he and the slightly gauche new prime minister, John Major, took part in the fraught Maastricht treaty negotiations that created the modern European Union.
"Battleborn" is not free to play, so it struck me as slightly gauche that after firing the game up for the first time I immediately saw an advertisement for a season pass.
To be the first to reach the top of the world's highest mountain ensured international celebrity and a place in history, but the modesty of a slightly gauche New Zealand beekeeper never departed him.
Within the series of o-monofluorinated compounds 1 b– 6 b (Table 3 and Table S1 in the Supporting Information), the most abundant conformation is gauche, despite the planar structure is slightly more stable than the most stable gauche conformer, generally by approximately 1 kJ mol−1.
In his tiny Streatham single bedsit where he survived on porridge and fish-paste sandwiches, a gauche, lonely and rudderless Merton seems to have gone slightly bonkers.
The activation energy at ambient pressure is 11.3 kJ mol−1, which is slightly lower than the value of the barrier between the trans and gauche conformations (13.2 kJ mol−1).
Upon increasing the surface pressure, the fluorinated segment gets slightly more upright, but the hydrocarbon chain tilt increases while keeping the same average number of gauche defects.
For example, a non-splenectomized patient presenting with a large or slightly enlarged spleen, severe anaemia, but normal platelet counts is inconsistent with the expected pattern in Gaucher disease (which would normally include thrombocytopenia).
