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 onscreen at the age of 9, she grew up there, never passing through an awkward age.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2011
All the things Tessie had accepted as part of the awkward age suddenly seemed ominous to her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
