The gawky seminarist was silent, with an angry air which implied that the arguments one was compelled to follow here were exasperatingly beneath one's criticism.
The swarthy party detached its principal guardian, a gawky young priest, to observe all the wanderings and riposos of us white people.
A gawky creature, with a coat like a bear's, he moved with the awkward grace of a puppy, slithering and slipping in the mud, yet always recovering himself with surprising speed and precision.
He ceased to be a pretty creature, pathetic in his helplessness, and grew into a gawky hobbledehoy, rough and rude and turbulent.
And in the afternoon and evening some of the villagers came in to gossip--and there was singing of songs, and one or two bashful attempts on the part of certain gawky lads to kiss equally gawky girls under the mistletoe.
She held herself better, had learned to keep her hair in order, and the more womanly dress, plain though it was, improved her figure more than could have been hoped in the days of her lank, gawky girlhood.
At that age she had attained her present altitude of five feet four inches, so that she was called tall and gawky by some, and a Maypole by others, of her own sex, who prefer littler women.
For the passage was blocked, while in the hall were collected together all the pupils and the servants--that gawky James coming back and towering above all, like a horrible lamp-post in a crowd.
Defn: A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
How can one write of these things for a generation which rather admires that inconvenient and gawky muddle of ironwork and Flemish architecture, the London Tower Bridge.
But who would ever have imagined that that gawky shock-headed American boy had really got so much romance in him!
Gawky messengers helped to move boxes, nail down matting, and elucidate the mysteries of setting up a bed.
The artless, gawky creature idolized Adair, and was proud beyond measure to be serving him so romantically.
I demanded a parley: and having assured him of my pacific disposition, Gawky exclaimed, "Ah, villain!
Gawky was so astonished at this that he could not answer one word, and the rest of the company stared at one another; till at length my mistress reprimanded me for my insolent behaviour, and threatened to turn me away for my presumption.
Then going down stairs, I met Lavement coming up trembling with the pestle in his hand, and Gawky behind armed with his sword, pushing him forward.
The lion-cub, at the same age, is a gawky and foolish and ill-knit mass of legs and fur; deficient in sense and in symmetry.
What looked like a miracle was no more than the same beautifully simple process which Nature enacts every day, when she changes an awkward and dirt-colored cygnet into a glorious swan or a leggily gawky colt into a superb Derby-winner.
John no longer seemed the gawky workman of his later days, but the neglected though attractive child who used to romp noisily through the house and stare at her and her friends with such innocent and prattling blandness.
She was an affable talker, a rather slim, gawky blonde, while Minnie was a stocky brunette with heavy, dark brows and black hair that was too coarse and wiry to be easily controlled.
The gawky youth came stumbling up, his outstretched hands carefully holding two tin cups filled with coffee close to the boiling point.
She was standing on the outskirts of a group composed mostly of women, quite alone so far as cavaliers were concerned, for the gawky youth had gone after coffee.
Being gawky, he stubbed his toe as he was rounding the group of women, and Mrs. Miller shrieked and swung back her hand, cuffing the gawky one straight into the thickest of the crowd.
The gawky hero looked very sheepish while she tied the soft bandage fast.
The last thing they saw was the alien figure of an Indian in rancher's garb, gazing motionless after them; and by his side, in baiting pantomime, one gawky urchin engaged in the labour of scalping a mate.
After this he gave a little laugh, which meant nothing, certainly not amusement; it was merely a gawky habit that he had unconsciously adopted.
That evening, conscious of responsibility and of virtue, Edwin walked up Trafalgar Road with a less gawky and more dignified mien than ever he had managed to assume before.
He finds nineteen other gawkyindividuals there with, nineteen other colts and the same ambitious expectations.
Every gawky boy who rejoices in the possession of a long-legged colt, reads the flaming proclamation with delight, and straightway redoubles his diligence in training his colt and himself for the grand occasion.
Ten years ago she had been gawky and sallow-complexioned.
A thin, gawky girl with a bad complexion," she suggested.
Next day, a young man, gawky and seemingly unsophisticated, brought the animal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gawky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
