Sentence examples for were ungainly from inspiring English sources
adjective
Clumsy; lacking grace.
Computers were ungainly room-size calculating machines that could be used by only one person at a time.
The finest rolling stock ever made The tube trains that first served Arnos Grove were ungainly, although characterful machines.
That's partly because initial products were ungainly and because LED lights are more expensive than incandescent bulbs, a technology that dates back to Thomas Edison.
Early wet suits, first created in 1951 for the Navy by Hugh Bradner, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, were ungainly.
The convertible tops were ungainly and never sealed particularly well, so here's a case in which the coupe is a better option.
The new bulbs — lighted by sparking an efficient chemical reaction, rather than heating a metal filament — were ungainly, took several seconds to light up and often did not fit into traditional light fixtures.
AS: His technique is ungainly but effective.
This digital self-promotion is ungainly.
