Ungainly In A Sentence

Definition of Ungainly

• Beside this was an ungainly side-wheeler with scarce a line of beauty to commend it.
• In these formative years of ungainly figure and uncertain dreaming the poet grows out of the boy.
• She looked, indeed, as if she owed people an apology for her somewhat ungainly appearance.
• The Arab flew through the air like an ungainly bird and slammed into the farther wall.
• Already," a shudder shook his tall ungainly form, "I see blood, blood, blood everywhere!
• It was marvellous to see such agility and obedience to the wish of the rider on such ungainly monsters.
• Even if a man had no carriage of his own, what inducement could he have to take so ungainly a conveyance.
• For this pitiful, ungainly little figure only two in all the world had any feeling other than contempt.
• It was a sign of the esteem in which the ungainly young man was held that those older than himself should unanimously propose him for their leader.
• The does are without antlers, and are still more ungainly than the long-legged and apparently awkward males.
• Save for the minutes when he consciously gave his attention to the ungainly young waiter, he disregarded him completely.
• Great treads set far out on each side of the squat, ungainly body preserved it against overturning.
• The admiration of a man so splay and ungainly was in itself insulting, when it became so enterprising as to propose marriage.
• Under this punishment the ungainly soldier rose with difficulty, then bent down and began to collect the overturned oats.
• For surely nothing could be more unmeaning or more ungainly than the monumental urn, unless it be the monumental obelisk.
• His next venture was a bedroom looking-glass, the stand of which stuck out from his back in an ungainly fashion.
• I had never in my life ridden one of these ungainly brutes, and it was necessary for the driver to instruct me in the art.
• He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it.
• He paced up and down the cage for the full space of an hour, hanging his ungainly head between his shoulders in abandonment to despair.
• Tawdry details came back of stove and littered table and ungainly chairs, and of swollen hands and swollen eyes.
• Glen, too, was kicking the sides of his ungainly steed, and yelling at him in a perfect frenzy of excitement.
• The ideal view of the structure is obtained from midway on that ungainly bridge which spans the Loire at this point.
• Its murky air, ungainly factories and buildings generally, impress the stranger with its intensely practical spirit.
• Suddenly casting his eyes about, they fell upon an ungainly form stretched on a lounge, that made us all start.
• The foal repeated its ungainly efforts, whimpering in a deep and muffled voice, like the wind in a cave.

• In leaped the whole ungainly form.
• He collided violently with a strange ungainly figure.
• Such an odd, ungainly figure!
• Poor, sick, ungainly child!
• He felt a sudden kinship for this huge, ungainly woman.
• The ungainly length of Lincoln appeared.
• The animal is of bulky proportions and somewhat ungainly movements.
• I cannot sit this ungainly brute much longer in these clothes.
• One who saw it could never again think of caribou as ungainly animals.
• Some of the sweetest of faces may be seen framed in this ungainly gear.
• Swaying motion began, and he knew his ungainly steed was underway.
• The idea of a tall ungainly grate would utterly dispel all ideas of romance.
• For all his ungainly and unpleasant gait, Martin covered ground fast.
• The boy cast a quick glance at the somewhat ungainly figure of Father John.
• The man, Klaas Stuurmann, is a Boer of loose, ungainly frame.