awkward age

How to use awkward age in a sentence

• I like to think of a crowd with pikes and torches shouting passages from "The awkward age."

  Varied Types | G. K. Chesterton

• He was just of that awkward age when boys fancy themselves men, and men are not prepared to lower themselves to their level.

  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour | R. S. Surtees

• It is both; and until the loss and the gain, the new and the old, are permanently separated and balanced, the awkward age lasts.

  Bits About Home Matters | Helen Hunt Jackson

• Both were painfully conscious of their awkward age and the fact that they were no longer children.

  The Transformation of Job | Frederick Vining Fisher

• "The awkward age," fairy godmother and spotless lamb and all the rest of it.

  Instigations | Ezra Pound