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Ungainly in a sentence

Ungainly meaning

  1. Clumsy; lacking grace.
  2. Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
  3. Unsuitable; unprofitable.

Synonyms of Ungainly

clumsy unwieldy awkward gawky clunky bunglesome unmanageable

Related words

Other words often associated with Ungainly or its synonyms:

cumbersome wieldy cumbrous ugly infelicitous intractable impractical strained inapt audible ungovernable bungling

Using Ungainly

  • The main meaning on this page is: Clumsy; lacking grace. | Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy. | Unsuitable; unprofitable.
  • Useful related words include: clumsy, unwieldy, awkward, gawky.
  • In the example corpus, ungainly often appears in combinations such as: the ungainly, ungainly and, an ungainly.

Context around Ungainly

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

somewhat 1× salad 1× typographically 1×

Often after:

body 1× swimmers 1× populated 1× mow 1× mass 1× animals 1× appearance 1× lewis 1× throw 1×

Sentence patterns with Ungainly

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a salad ungainly to consume 1× a typographically ungainly appearance 1× and somewhat ungainly populated with 1× and the ungainly mass of 1× be an ungainly throw 1× boyhood the ungainly lewis tall 1× dancers was ungainly and buffoonish 1× handle the ungainly body 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

alaska sea grant 1× around july of 1× many books printed 1× suburban sprawl and 1× the cast of 1× the physical comedy 1×

Common sentence endings:

an ungainly throw 1× and the team 1× for naval technology 1× from the ballet 1× mouth at once 1× proper macadamized roads 1×

Words around Ungainly

Just before it in the word index:

ungab 2 unga 78 ung 18 unfussy 18 unfused 2 unfurnished 9

Just after it in the word index:

ungar 12 ungaro 3 ungeared 2 ungenerous 9 ungentle 1 ungentlemanly 11

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaditya 23 aardman 23 abbo 23 aberg 23 aboitiz 23 abovementioned 23

Corpus analysis for Ungainly

  • In this selection, "ungainly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, somewhat, salad, typographically, body, swimmers and populated stand out and add context to how "ungainly" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a salad ungainly to consume and a typographically ungainly appearance. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "ungainly" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with ungainly

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

To the untrained eye, this appears to be an ungainly throw. (11 words)

And if you’re Norvell, you don’t apologize for a rivalry win, however ungainly. (15 words)

Suburban sprawl and "the ungainly mass of humanity" has Toronto drivers fuming as they sit stuck in traffic. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself? (36 words)

Many books printed in China use a mix of fonts, with vowels and tone marks rendered in a different font from the surrounding text, tending to give such pinyin texts a typographically ungainly appearance. (34 words)

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more. (32 words)

Question examples

Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself? (36 words)

Example sentences (14)

Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program Agent led this year’s session with assistance from two local biologists who helped handle the ungainly body.

Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself?

And if you’re Norvell, you don’t apologize for a rivalry win, however ungainly.

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

Ungainly and in many cases conceptually flawed, the helicopter cruisers nevertheless represented an important leap forward for naval technology.

As I’ve noted here before, that makes a salad ungainly to consume, especially if you’re like me and just want to shovel everything into your mouth at once.

The physical comedy of the dancers was ungainly and buffoonish, for the sake of the characters, but still managed to show grace from the ballet.

It was the sort of reactionary football that’s so anti-Neymar, an ungainly mow over the cow cordon to a luminescent leg-glance, counter-productive to himself and the team.

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Suburban sprawl and "the ungainly mass of humanity" has Toronto drivers fuming as they sit stuck in traffic.

Around July of each year, these ungainly animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October.

Many books printed in China use a mix of fonts, with vowels and tone marks rendered in a different font from the surrounding text, tending to give such pinyin texts a typographically ungainly appearance.

The Russian supply chains would be ungainly because--for defense--on their side of the border there were only a few sandy tracks rather than proper macadamized roads.

Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.

To the untrained eye, this appears to be an ungainly throw.

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Common combinations with ungainly

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "ungainly" in a sentence?
An example: "Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program Agent led this year’s session with assistance from two local biologists who helped handle the ungainly body." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "ungainly" from authentic English texts.
What does "ungainly" mean?
Ungainly means: Clumsy; lacking grace.
What are synonyms of "ungainly"?
Common synonyms of "ungainly" include: clumsy, unwieldy, awkward, gawky, clunky, bunglesome, unmanageable.
How many example sentences with "ungainly" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "ungainly", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.