"awkward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "This isn't such a creepy place," he managed to say, in an awkward attempt to change the subject.
- Mike makes several awkward attempts at speaking to women, but they all end disastrously.
- Though both are now 60 years old, there would be no awkward attempt at having co-chief executives.
- Scott nodded and made an awkward attempt at a wave, then ran down the slope.
- No one felt much like talking, and the bleakness of the day brought an end to every awkward attempt.
- Rising, she made her arms suggest the wings of a bird making awkward attempts at flight.
- Not often in public, despite his awkward attempts to joke about how bad he looks on television and that sort of thing.
- It was lying on the floor, just beyond their awkward attempts to reach it.
- He raised his own hand in an awkward attempt to match the captain's gesture.
- He seemed to have been discomfited by his own awkward attempt to get tough.
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