"awkward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

awkward adjetivo

awkward + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 89
awkward position • awkward silence • awkward moment • awkward situation • awkward question • awkward pause • awkward angle • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(5) pause, halt
Kolokacji: 2
(6) angle, space, gap
Kolokacji: 3
(7) thing, relationship, affair
Kolokacji: 3
1. awkward attempt = niezgrabna próba awkward attempt
  • "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.
2. awkward effort = niezgrabny wysiłek awkward effort
3. awkward phrase = niezgrabny zwrot awkward phrase
4. awkward dance = niezgrabny taniec awkward dance
5. awkward phrasing = niezgrabne wyrażanie awkward phrasing
(13) encounter, meeting, reunion
Kolokacji: 3
(14) smile, laugh
Kolokacji: 2
(15) transition, passage, leap
Kolokacji: 3
(18) posture, stance, landing
Kolokacji: 3
(19) hug, kiss, grip
Kolokacji: 3
(20) mix, shuffle
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + awkward
Kolokacji: 3
feel awkward • look awkward • sound awkward
adverbio + awkward
Kolokacji: 16
socially awkward • somewhat awkward • most awkward • slightly awkward • extremely awkward • ...
awkward + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
awkward for • awkward in • awkward with • awkward at • awkward about • ...

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