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Six example sentences with gawky, each labelled with its topic.
At fourteen he was all elbows and knees, a gawky center who tripped over his own feet.
Basketball
The portrait catches a gawky teenager in mid shrug, arms folded wrong, shoulders climbing toward his ears.
Photography
Austen's heroine watches a gawky suitor knock a teacup off the table while attempting a low bow.
Literature
The film's hero starts as a gawky teenager who cannot cross a room without knocking something over.
Movies
New rowers look gawky for weeks, all flailing arms and bumped knees, until the stroke finally becomes one smooth motion.
Fitness
A newborn giraffe is gawky for its first hour, wobbling on legs that seem far too long for its body.
Environment
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