How to Use unwieldy in a Sentence

unwieldy

adjective
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  • The system is outdated and unwieldy.
  • The omelet sandwich is unwieldy, yes, but deal with it.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • And roughly two-thirds in, the movie begins to feel a bit cluttered and unwieldy.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Many of them add hard disk drives to the Macintosh, making the block-map scheme unwieldy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • In the middle of a frantic firefight, this is way too unwieldy.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Why does non-small cell cancer have such an unwieldy name?
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Instead, opt for this solid body oil that has all of the perks without the unwieldy liquid.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Upon release, the game was just unwieldy enough to be compelling.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Spring knocks us forward and sends us into the future, unwieldy in our stature.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The giant rafts are too unwieldy for the tug’s engine to handle, the crew said, making the work dangerous.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, unwieldy crowds have flocked to the city for spring break.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That’s on the short side for survival knives on land, but is about right for boating, where a big blade can quickly start to feel unwieldy.
    — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • Moreover, the pack had been getting big and unwieldy, conditions that spur the urge to disperse.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • The second was the size of Destiny 2 on Bungie’s side, where the game had become too unwieldy to manage and improve behind the scenes.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The sacking of Diess proves just how unwieldy managing the VW Group can be with its three main groups of stakeholders.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 July 2022
  • And more charters might be required for more teams as the travel becomes more unwieldy.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The result, though still sprawling, isn’t as unwieldy as the eighteen-million-year time line of Liu’s novels.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Lactate, which requires a small drop of blood, is too unwieldy a measure to keep them on target.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 18 July 2022
  • Most people, when asked to fill out a form, round off unwieldy numbers to the nearest hundred or thousand.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The irony is that de Armas’ performance would be even more powerful in a less unwieldy film.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But the worst drought in at least 1,200 years, marked by intense and unwieldy fire activity, is something new.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • Since the Group of 20 is too unwieldy and feature too many conflicting priorities, the G7 is the only game in town.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • To the uninitiated, the sport with stones and brooms and the instrument with a bladder and a tangle of reeds can appear unwieldy and baffling.
    — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Tenants leave bikes more than anything else because bikes are so unwieldy.
    — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Appropriate, then, that this was a year for unwieldy, searching, big-swing books.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The unwieldy nature of living life is not something that always has to be organized.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • But cargo bikes are typically long, large, heavy, and a bit unwieldy.
    — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • In fact, the program’s complex, unwieldy architecture may be one of the key reasons for its endurance.
    — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Entire books encoded this way would be far too unwieldy.
    — Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • At the restaurant’s grand opening, a staffer told The Times that the crypto payments were unwieldy and going largely ignored by customers.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2022

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