"awkward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Throughout, there are no awkward melodic leaps; everything proceeds smoothly, by arpeggio or by step.
- The Eeiauoan was beside him with an awkward leap, her eyes round.
- It made an awkward, high leap, twisting in the air to land on its foot a dozen feet nearer the tractor.
- His step quickened as much as his throbbing knee allowed, and he took the back stairs in a couple of awkward leaps.
- I nearly slipped and fell when his awkward and exaggerated leap over it took me off-guard in mid-stride.
- She blundered on through the mud in awkward leaps.
- By awkward leaps and bounds he was rapidly becoming a mental case.
- The first movement defines C minor in the first bar, but then destabilizes it with awkward leaps at odd intervals:
- But each of her vocal registers seemed to inhabit a different world, with awkward leaps between them.
- The mouse hole was in front of them and Tennyson made an awkward leap for it.
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