Sentence examples for while awkward from inspiring English sources

I stand there for a while, awkward with my notepad, until Oscar Owide says the customers are uneasy at my standing taking notes and I'm banished downstairs.

Her appearance with Yasir Arafat's wife, Suha, last year, while awkward, was nonetheless handled in a way that did not disrupt sensitive negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

O'Brien is used to living inside his head and so his odyssey, while awkward at times, is enthralling as he learns to accept his body.

This isn't good.'" Graceful while awkward is a difficult trick to pull off, yet Jones has repeatedly found ways to make it so during painful-looking spectacles against his competitors.

Having those conversations with all children present, while awkward and morbid, will allow everyone to be on the same page.

While awkward pairings can be humorous, students should be encouraged to reinforce scientific messages with complementary music whenever possible.

He hurt both while hitting an awkward shot from under the Eisenhower tree at the Masters last month.

Saying that the colours are perhaps a little too bright, however, will probably only get you an awkward while of silent treatment.

For a too wordy example (using Pride and Prejudice): After sitting in silence for a while and making awkward conversation, Mr. Darcy proposes marriage in the worst way possible to Elizabeth, who rejects him by telling him that he couldn't propose to her in a way that would make her want to marry him.

While former awkward ducklings turned into pre-pubescent swans around me, while retainers and headgears were discarded to the dismay of thriving orthodontists, while Accutane showed promise but still no risk, I remained the Outsider.

Jonah's relationships with his peers, while often awkward and untenable, are never neurotic.