He paused, but Hester led him to an empty chair, shoved him clumsily down into it, and then flopped down on his lap.
Again Norry tugged at his arm, and this time Hugh, clinging clumsily to the edge of the table by which he was sitting, staggered to his feet.
A man suddenly released his girl and raced clumsily for the door, one hand pressed to his mouth, the other stretched uncertainly in front of him.
I came leaping clumsily from point to point with my pole, like a ski-jumping Norwegian, risking my neck at every bound.
Mary was undeniably implicated in the plot, which was so clumsilycarried on that fourteen of the parties concerned were executed before she even knew that the scheme had been detected.
The man hesitated, a little bewildered, then he shuffled forward and sat clumsily in the chair opposite his master.
When the stone was removed, steps, clumsilycut in the rock, became visible.
Yes; but he is the more formidable of the two; the one whose life you so clumsily saved, Dominique.
The arrows to be found in Patagonia demonstrate in a contrary manner the influence of civilised industries, since the heads the most clumsily made are the most modern.
The crocodile thrust up his ugly mouth and began to clamber clumsily out of the tank to devour the boy.
He clattered clumsily about on his heavy wooden shoes, with long straws from the stable dangling from his clothes and littering the floor.
A shaft of red light through a broken shutter struck across the figure above the shoulders, revealing a bloody handkerchief clumsily knotted about the head, and, beneath it, the face of Joe Louden.
She tied the obi clumsily about her waist, then gently laid her hand on the bowed head.
He destroyed her clumsily made dolls whenever he found them.
He went slowly indoors, extinguished an unnecessary lamp, and clumsily set the table and the chairs in their places again.
The orderly now entered treading clumsily in his heavy boots.
With a sense of despair such as one who falls headlong into a chasm might feel, he clumsily and threateningly flourished the whip.
Riasantzeff at last understood the situation, and he felt so sorry for Lialia, that, clumsily enough, he turned the talk into another channel.
Davidka immediately turned around, and, clumsily lifting his stout leg incased in a huge dirty boot over the threshold, took refuge in the opposite door.
She felt a little cross at Mr. Philip for not showing that Edinburgh too understands the art of arrogance, for opening the letter so clumsily and omitting to say the nice friendly thing.
He was in one of the outhouses, clumsily trying to carpenter something that was to be a surprise to somebody.
I am thus far the master of my unborn game--another last shuffle to prove it, though I shuffle clumsily enough.
With many shouts she had clumsily enough imprisoned one--a fairy thing of green and bronze--in a hand so plump that it seemed to have been quilted.
These however proved to be nothing more than old straggling bulls, feeding upon the neighboring plains, who would stare for a moment at the hostile array and then gallop clumsily off.
A white wolf jumped up from among some bushes, and leaped clumsily away; but he stopped for a moment, and turned back his keen eye and his grim bristling muzzle.
Barnabas explained, a little clumsily perhaps, for she fell silent at this, and stooped her head the better to dab tenderly at the cut above her eyebrow; also the color deepened in her cheeks.
Seeing what Jack was about, she placed her baskets on the ground, calling upon the men to help themselves, and then with quick deft hands completed the bandaging which Jack had clumsily begun.
The well-cover seemed to have been clumsily replaced.
The would-be assassin's cloak had caught, and, but that the door was rather clumsily fitted, would have prevented its being closed.
I don't see that it matters so long as it is warm, and indeed to tell the truth, I like this better than my Sunday frock; it is so clumsily made.
It is so clumsily made; I'd have liked to take my dark green cashmere that I brought from auntie's.
Stubbard, sobbing like a child, was lifting and clumsily chafing one numb hand; while his wife, who had sponged the wound, was making the white curls wave with a fan she had shaped from a long official paper found upon the floor.
He stood not firmly on the ground, nor lightly poised like a gallant sailor, but loosely and clumsily like a ploughman who leaves off at the end of his furrow to ease the cramp.
A moment later she knelt and fastened a pair of hobbles about the horse's ankles, and, removing the saddle, watched the animal roll clumsily in the grass, and shuffle awkwardly to the creek where he sucked greedily at the cold water.
Canned goods and dishes were disarranged upon their shelves, and the loose section of floor board beneath her bunk that had evidently served as the secret cache of the sheep herder, had been fitted clumsily into its place.
The pony halted before the door, and Patty greeted the girl who scrambled clumsily to the ground.
I ran at once to the edge of the quay and clumsily propounded a question as to where the barge was bound for.
When we were inside he reached up, clumsily holding the blaster, and unscrewed the ancient spacesuit fishbowl.
The stones were in their places, but the beautiful gold-work which we had admired only a few days before had been very clumsily pulled about.
But she had not grown accustomed to the brace again, and she stumbled clumsily on account of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clumsily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anyhow; carelessly; clumsily; heedlessly; offhand; recklessly; roughly
