CLUMSY in a Sentence

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62 example sentences for CLUMSY, such as:

1. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage.
2. If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.
3. He is so clumsy that he can't even push the small cart ahead.
4. This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer.
5. I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLUMSY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clumsy
 a.  awkward; showing lack of skill or aptitude
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  It was intoxicating to find such magic in his clumsy words, and he longed to try new ways of using it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  The heavy old mahogany table, spread with cake and decanters, still presided in the empty-looking dining room but it was scratched and the broken legs showed signs of clumsy repair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  I don't know what lie Ashley Wilkes told her--but any clumsy one would do, for she loves Ashley and she loves you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
6  Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
8  A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  They drove out in a clumsy high carriage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  They were in a long whitewashed hall with a clumsy draw-curtain across the front.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  With no visible connection he said, "Uncle Whit is kind of clumsy, but just the same, he's a pretty wise old coot."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
15  As soon as the snow had packed hard, I began to drive about the country in a clumsy sleigh that Otto Fuchs made for me by fastening a wooden goods-box on bobs.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
Example Sentence:
1  I did the same thing except with a Bunker Buster, but the shock wave made me stumble and made me look like a clumsy loser.
2  "Watch what you're doing, you clumsy oaf!" Bill shouted at the waiter who had drenched him with iced coffee.
3  We've seen clumsy security measures make life miserable at our airports and drain vitality from our public spaces.
4  He is so clumsy that he can't even push the small cart ahead.