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词汇 example_english_awkward-situation
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awkward situation

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meanings of awkwardand situation


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awkward
adjective
uk /ˈɔː.kwəd/ us /ˈɑː.kwɚd/
difficult to use, do, or ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk /ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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Examples of awkward situation


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This term denotes an awkwardsituation where the fate of a social movement is bound to the electoral performance of a certain political party.
This is a very awkwardsituation we have got into.
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Then there will be cases when it is essential that a difficult and awkwardsituation should be sorted out immediately.
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It seemed to me that the limitation which was being proposed might create an awkwardsituation.
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He recommended it in his most persuasive terms as the best solution for what he admitted was an extremely awkwardsituation.
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In the first few days an awkwardsituation arose.
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However, that is here the case, and we are faced with a rather awkwardsituation.
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If legislation is required, it ought to be brought in at a very early date in order to clarify a difficult and awkwardsituation.
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I do not criticise the prison staff, who are in an awkwardsituation.
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In the end they were able to emerge with some honour from what might have been an awkwardsituation.
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Anything therefore which tends to raise unduly the price of our exported products may lead us into a very awkwardsituation.
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There will be an awkwardsituation in relation to the fixed link and in ensuring that the testing is adequate.
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If there is no agreement, we shall find ourselves in a difficult and awkwardsituation.
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This has created a very awkwardsituation in the anthracite coalfields, because it has shaken the confidence of the men in the industry.
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On the other side there is what could be a very awkwardsituation for farmers and farmland in this country.
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This situation places the private buses or those jointly owned by private and railway enterprise in an awkwardsituation.
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Then he is in a very awkwardsituation.
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One quite appreciates that, faced with this awkwardsituation, you had to decide what you felt was best to be done.
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I am not saying that, but it would have caused a lot of heart-burning and there would have been an awkwardsituation.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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