UNGAINLY in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for UNGAINLY, such as:
1. They fled like soft, ungainly animals.
2. With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling.
3. You know he is as ungainly within as without.
4. On land the turtle is ungainly, but in the water it isvery agile.
5. Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
2. With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling.
3. You know he is as ungainly within as without.
4. On land the turtle is ungainly, but in the water it isvery agile.
5. Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of UNGAINLY
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ungainly
a. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
a. lacking grace in movement or posture
Classic Sentence:
1 He was lank and ungainly but, even with his wooden peg, he moved as swiftly as a snake.
2 The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly, without being in any particular manner deformed.
3 They fled like soft, ungainly animals.
4 At sight of this tableau, many of the men in blue sprang from behind their covers and made an ungainly dance of joy.
5 His figure was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and young.
6 You know he is as ungainly within as without.
7 At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.
8 He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
Context Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
9 Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me.
10 Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
11 With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling.
Example Sentence:
1 "If you want to know whether Nick's an ungainly dancer, check out my bruised feet," said Nora.
2 Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
3 Because he was highly overweight and looked ungainly, John Candy often was cast as a slow-witted lummox.
4 On land the turtle is ungainly, but in the water it isvery agile.