"awkward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was approaching the awkward age in a professional golfer's career.
- They were at that awkward age: too young to be responsible, but too big not to be taken seriously.
- About 65 percent are immigrants, most, like Lilia, having arrived at an awkward age for a standard American high school.
- Daughter Martha was at what promised to be the sort of awkward age that might well last a lifetime.
- She wondered how much of being ugly was just an awkward age.
- He's very bright, but unfortunately at that awkward age between boy and man which means he's something of a monster.
- First appearing on screen at age 10, she grew up there, never passing through an awkward age.
- By the early 1940s, with the onset of puberty, he had reached the awkward age where child actors couldn't play juveniles anymore.
- Either way, he looks, as Pontormo's subjects often do, tentative, between emotions, forever at an awkward age.
- What could be more appropriate for this awkward age than the theme song's plaintive refrain, "I'm just going through a phase"?
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