clumsiness

Example Sentences

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She spilled Coke on her sari and figured her clumsiness would doom the engagement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Some of this clumsiness is simply the endearing choreography of learning something new.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

These include difficulty concentrating, depression, stumbling and clumsiness, involuntary jerking of the limbs and body, mood swings and personality changes, problems swallowing, speaking and breathing.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

A child's personality and behavior may change, and clumsiness or stumbling develops between the ages of five and ten.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

Now he saw that it was not random thorny branches and his own clumsiness in walking into them, but rather an assault from Forest itself.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry