Example Sentences

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The adaptation squanders the both talents of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and the goodwill of fans by lumpily repackaging the plot.

From Economist • Sep. 7, 2017

As such, you cannot help feeling a sort of humility around them: They may be slow and ungainly and lumpily fashioned, but they are, in their durability and unchangeability, perfect in a way we aren’t.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2015

Copenhagen audiences last week were seeing a Soviet-made horse opera that managed to combine cowboys with horse racing and a hearty helping of World War II anti-German propaganda, all wrapped lumpily into ten reels.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson