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Example sentences for "awkward position"

  • We were in an awkward position; our horses were very nearly dead beat, and we could hardly hope to get away if pursued.

  • Gough no doubt felt himself in an awkward position.

  • During the entire extra session of 1893 the body of the Democratic Senators and Members were placed in an awkward position.

  • Tom still hesitated for he felt that he was in an awkward position.

  • The governor and I, therefore, thought it better that you should not be placed in such an awkward position, and therefore we considered it right not to say a word to you about it.

  • Mr. Trevannion will find himself in an awkward position, and I think we can force him to hire his vessel to government, who will gladly accept such a one as the Arrow.

  • Mr Trevannion will find himself in an awkward position, and I think we can force him to hire his vessel to government, who will gladly accept such a one as the Arrow.

  • As the latter had, and the former had not, military rank, the commissary was in an awkward position.

  • My vakeel was in an awkward position--he was afraid of me; also mortally afraid of the government in Khartoum; and frightened out of his life at his own men, whose conspiracy to desert he was well aware of.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awkward position; both instances; common practice; different epochs; equestrian statue; fifteen grains; first base; general outline; green flame; half smiling; kill herself; kind enough; much good; operatic music; phosphoric acid; public sector; right worshipful; shall also the coming; spined stickleback; support them; sweet potatoes; white robes