Explore Gawky through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like clumsy or clunky. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Gawky in a sentence
Gawky meaning
- Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
- Left-handed.
Using Gawky
- The main meaning on this page is: Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement. | Left-handed.
- Useful related words include: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy.
Context around Gawky
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gawky
- In this selection, "gawky" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, four, witches, chicks, ones and middle stand out and add context to how "gawky" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include during my gawky middle school and kids and gawky ones at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gawky" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gawky
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The set is cumbersome, the witches gawky. (7 words)
Here, there’s no mistaking that these are kids, and gawky ones at that. (14 words)
A friend who watched one pair dourly raise four gawky chicks on bloody morsels of birds, nicknamed them “Ted and Sylvia”. (21 words)
While I often longed to look like her, especially during my gawky middle school years, the fact we didn’t look alike freed me to be a bookworm and not a beauty queen. (33 words)
Bondy is a toothy, priggish Price – effectively the straight man to Cunningham, whom Holmes manages to imbue with cringeworthiness and charm simultaneously; with gawky limb angles and googy facial expressions. (30 words)
A friend who watched one pair dourly raise four gawky chicks on bloody morsels of birds, nicknamed them “Ted and Sylvia”. (21 words)
Example sentences (5)
A friend who watched one pair dourly raise four gawky chicks on bloody morsels of birds, nicknamed them “Ted and Sylvia”.
Here, there’s no mistaking that these are kids, and gawky ones at that.
The set is cumbersome, the witches gawky.
While I often longed to look like her, especially during my gawky middle school years, the fact we didn’t look alike freed me to be a bookworm and not a beauty queen.
Bondy is a toothy, priggish Price – effectively the straight man to Cunningham, whom Holmes manages to imbue with cringeworthiness and charm simultaneously; with gawky limb angles and googy facial expressions.