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Sentence Examples Mothers and fathers send out the message that boys are awkward, ungainly and silly. The high ceilings and unbroken expanses of wall in such a house can make the rooms seem awkward and ungainly. He felt clumsy and awkward in the air, his body too ungainly to be properly streamlined. But their lack of harmoniousness yields an ungainly charm, familiar and easy to settle into. I was always a bit awkward and ungainly as a child, so I thought that maybe I was just on the clumsy side. If a grader were a person, he might be called ungainly, awkward, or even a klutz. There were serpents, spiders, box kites, ungainly human-shaped kites wobbling in the wind, to name just a few. Zack was fascinated with the baby geese, laughing at their ungainly waddle, watching them as they foraged through the grass. Not so large that they were ungainly and made him clumsy, but not so small that you would be suspicious of him. The winged males and females have a very ungainly flight that does not take them very far. The bases are ungainly, jerry-built settings that playfully complement the divalike trees. Holmes's ticket did have a red circle and he stood in an ungainly stance that was in keeping with his disguise. Daisy has a fragility that is beautifully conveyed in her delicately ungainly first-person narration. One type of bird had a bit of an ungainly way of carrying itself in flight, splaying its legs out as it went and wobbling a bit. He was one that fans may not have taken to straight away because he's ungainly, but he would have won them over with his goals. He bundled the sails over the booms and tied them into ungainly lumps, then went to the wheelhouse. Another ungainly blow from me, and my sword was met with the blade of Conrad's sword and was quickly swept aside. With a series of ungainly steps, clumsy lunges, and eventually a kind of painful waddle, he made his way to the phone. Her steed mumbled something inaudible as he restarted his ungainly walk to the church doors. His ungainly, inelegant posture can leave him exposed against nimbler opponents, and he easily attracts ridicule. Show More Sentences Seeing how terribly the trip strained the ungainly mother, Indira was amazed at her stoic determination to continue. But there was also a beauty in the ungainly awkwardness but obvious enthusiasm of the supporting roles. He meets an incoherent drifter clutching reverently at a large, ungainly cardboard box. Under the low slanting ceiling of the bathroom, he seems clumsy and ungainly. In spite of the ungainly figure he cuts, there is something instantly soothing about the monk. When I ran, I looked ungainly in my mind's eye, which could see all too well the fleetness of other children. Research which is quickly developing into an ungainly Frankenstein's monster beyond my control. The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him. I was ungainly and I was bored by sport, which in Australia is a sure sign that you're a bad person. Taylor was always playing catch up against an energetic, ungainly player who just would not lie down. He was an ungainly figure and when he danced, many whistled, hooted, and laughed at him. We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green, blue and yellow birds, and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl. But it was the way she won her races, gutsily from the front, as well as that ungainly action, which captured the hearts of the racing public. His black hair was matted with grime and clung to his scalp in ungainly tufts. The earliest to develop were the somewhat more derived ungainly carnivores, omnivores and herbivores of the Dinocephalian lineages. In all likelihood the disapprobation was directed at Nijinsky's eccentric and ungainly choreography, rather than Stravinsky's efforts. Whatever halted their ungainly landing recovery, however, was a great deal softer and more pliant than the opposing wall of the tunnel would have been. This morning I read it, and it is a lump of leaden prose, ungainly and unattractive, like a plain fat spotty teenager at her prom, dressed like a Christmas cake. The public figure going around always with his ear to the ground is in an ungainly posture, and it is difficult for him to look like a leader. The bridge resembles an ungainly doily with its spiky pinnacles and lacelike steel crisscrosses. Show More Sentences The owner-buyer, Jeffrey Haber, a thirty-nine-year-old fellow with uncombed blond hair, resembled a pudgy, ungainly boy. Joyous fans galloped in the ungainly manner of fanatics across the field and seized an unresisting Iraqi player, kissing him on the cheek. Perfect powder snow makes a satisfying scrunch as I plod out to the children's area, an ungainly heel-toe process in the leaden moon boots binding my ankles. Dili, the capital, an ungainly sprawl between the mountains and the sea, has been spruced up. Their legs are placed far back on their body, allowing for excellent movement in water but making them ungainly on land. What happens is that these girls grow up lacking vital motor skills, in turn becoming ungainly women who struggle with any physical activity. His tall ungainly silhouette huddled under the porch of an old Thai restaurant was giving away a veil of steam. The daily removal of hair which breaks the hair and leaves ungainly regrowth. This wine is light years away from the monolithically ungainly Monbazillacs of the past, and from which consumers rightly turned away. These weird, ungainly structures have many affinities with other art works. Though this may be unexceptionable enough from the point of view of gender, it's a messy and ungainly solution stylistically, and one to be avoided. The roomer in 5-B brushed past him, carrying an ungainly bundle under one arm. It has lost some of its ungainly enthusiasm, its sloppy joy, its achingly self-conscious hipster attitude. In that ungainly position, the hilt of his sword jagged him in the ribs. Nice. If the dog needed a wee in the night I'd have to go with him, as the dog was impossibly large and ungainly, and the door was impossibly high off the ground. Large, ungainly and hanging onto my thick specs, I'd leap over a vault with my free hand, landing with a resonant thud on the other side, and I loved it. You only have to see a film such as Sunrise to realise why many people considered the coming of sound as a disaster and why early talkies were crude and ungainly. The resulting pieces at first look remarkably awkward and ungainly. That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking. His legs immediately gave way and he rolled backwards with a loud thud, landing sprawled, suffering from chronically injured pride, in an ungainly heap. Show More Sentences I imagine he made an ungainly lunge at her, which she again rejected and which left her seriously upset. But in their ungainly, old fashioned ways, books and records beat their digital equivalents in every category but convenience. Mating takes place at the surface, often an ungainly procedure involving much rolling about and waving of flippers as the amorous male tries to mount the female. Finding that they did, he tried a few ungainly steps toward the door. Do we identify with the ungainly, terrified wretch who will soon be dead meat, or do we get a thrill imagining ourselves as the sleek, athletic predator? The thin, ungainly boy didn't seem to have the makings of a star gymnast. Because the goal is a screen that is twice as large for the same viewing distance, this will lead to heavy and ungainly receivers with today's CRT technology, and the power requirements will be significantly higher. As for how it could affect Telefilm's plan, there is a mechanism-it sounds ungainly, it sounds as though it would be more bureaucracy, but there is a way-whereby it could really work. It seemed ungainly at first, awkward sounding and unrevealing. At birth a calf moose is a tiny, ungainly copy of its mother. She takes Cilla Black, ungainly with her long legs coltishly splayed and drinking from a paper cup, all wrapped up in her limbs, and it's not in the slightest degree humiliating, but lovable. Unfortunately, Britain's ungainly planning system stands in the way. In the confines of the whorehouse, he seemed larger and more ungainly than usual, as though he were not fully housebroken and had to be prevented from slipping on things and knocking over the equipment. This ungainly man soon percolated in my own melancholic imagination. Half-finished, his pictures often looked ungainly to me. An ungainly and inconspicuous looking footballer, the precision of his passes and his cat-like vision have afforded him legendary status in his homeland. Where once it was awkward and ungainly, now it had blossomed into a thing of beauty, like a glorious figurehead on the majestic ship that would scoop up Hopkins and dump her off somewhere miles away from everyone. When I saw Maria Callas for the first time, she was fairly plump, an ungainly girl, who neither knew the etiquette, nor how to dress in good taste. Its short hind legs give a most ungainly gait, though it runs with surprising speed when pursued. Its unearthly howl adds to its despicability. No primitive craft could possibly be imagined extremely crude and ungainly in appearance, the Mtepe reached up to fifty feet in length on the water line. Show More Sentences Consequently, they should never be coarse or ungainly. With a wobble and a shimmy, I limboed backwards in my canoe, nose brushing against the bridge, to shoot safely out the other side like an ungainly, oversized Poohstick. Their mothers scooch in ungainly fashion between offspring and wave. His style of play, meanwhile, can be clumsy and ungainly, contrasting starkly with club colleague Kaka, while his predilection for pouting when pulled back for even the most blatant offside decision wins him no new friends. This very large range of some seven powers of ten is somewhat ungainly for practical use, so that a logarithmic representation is chosen in place of the pascal. Young vines, growers often say, are like teenagers, ungainly and impetuous in their growth, offering grapes that make bright, fruity but relatively simple wines. Isolated from other continents, Australia has an abundance of unique plant and animal life recognizable by cuddly koalas, bounding kangaroos and ungainly emus. Thousands of ungainly black-beaked heads would periscope and freeze in the direction of the approaching intruder. The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water. Berto is a stiff and rather ungainly fighter, and by the third round he was following Mayweather around the ring with his hands in front of his head, looking like someone trying to kill a fly without a swatter. Not to expose themselves in the sun after an application because some are photosensibilisantes as the citrus, they can provoke ungainly tasks therefore on skin. This terrible, jagged remnant rears up from a panoramic view of the civic grandeur of Dresden like some terrible, ungainly, carious tooth which both shames and alarms. It was a large, ungainly and expensive machine and only a few were sold. The results are as ungainly as the runners in a three-legged race. Neodymium glass gets its rather ungainly name from the neodymium oxide it contains which is responsible for these dichroic or colour changing properties. They typically have deep, ungainly bills, showing a greater resemblance to those of the pelicans, to which they are related, than is obvious in the adults. It was heavy and ungainly and required a man to pump it continuously. Examples from Classical Literature Their stone flanks, their wide, ungainly wings, their lozenged crocodile-like backs show grey through the trees a long way off. It was one of those utterly ungainly creations that were built around one half of the sidewall of the Shed. It was ridiculous and ungainly, lying there on his back with legs sprawling in the air. Then, from the ungainly hoyden had been evolved this charming, delicate and lovely creature. When disco first saw this ungainly monster he was bereft of speech for some minutes. The animal waddled toward the centre of the circle, short and squat and ungainly. The ungainly little scot did not leave the Wythburn district. Thousands of ungainly boats, rafts and scows were waiting to be launched. Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there. Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world. In my case, the chain shirt being too big for me, I put it on over all my clothes, which caused it to bulge in a somewhat ungainly fashion. The ungainly, stubby forms seemed to rise from every crevice in the floor. He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. Mr. Stagg knew very well that the ungainly boy was no shirk. The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly, without being in any particular manner deformed. At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut. Will ungainly craftsmanship become a standard for the repair of real old buildings? The owner was a lumpish, ungainly fellow, astonishingly bow-legged. It was a sight to see the figure Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his garments clinging tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but agile. Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me. Show More Sentences With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. The next breaker rolled them over and over, but eventually they all succeeded in crawling to safety, and in a moment more their ungainly craft had been washed up beside them. Broad and ungainly, she floundered from wave to wave, dipping her round bows deeply into the blue rollers, and sending the white flakes of foam in a spatter over her decks. His figure was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and young. She realized, too, how ironical it was that with all her work she should have grown to be so ungainly although Martin retained the old magnetism of his gorgeous physique. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ungainly? Words that rhyme with ungainly What is the plural of ungainly? What is the adverb for ungainly? What is the adjective for ungainly? What is the noun for ungainly? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ungainliness unfussy unfussily unfused unfurrowed unfurnished Ungainly ungainsayable ungallant ungallantly ungalled ungarbled 8-letter Words Starting With u un ung unga ungai ungain ungainl