awkward age
Example Sentences
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She later said, “Fourteen’s an awkward age, anyway—everything so dramatic, down to what color shoes you’re wearing.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
He was 42 in August of 1977, and that is a very awkward age for a rock star.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017
The truth is I am at an awkward age, caught between hopeless romantic, hedonistic bachelor and desperate spinster.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2014
First appearing on screen at age 10, she grew up there, never passing through an awkward age.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011
For a year now they had been denying how I was changing, putting it down to the awkward age.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
