"This isn't such a creepy place," he managed to say, in an awkward attempt to change the subject.

Mike makes several awkward attempts at speaking to women, but they all end disastrously.

Though both are now 60 years old, there would be no awkward attempt at having co-chief executives.

Scott nodded and made an awkward attempt at a wave, then ran down the slope.

No one felt much like talking, and the bleakness of the day brought an end to every awkward attempt.

Rising, she made her arms suggest the wings of a bird making awkward attempts at flight.

Not often in public, despite his awkward attempts to joke about how bad he looks on television and that sort of thing.

It was lying on the floor, just beyond their awkward attempts to reach it.

He raised his own hand in an awkward attempt to match the captain's gesture.

He seemed to have been discomfited by his own awkward attempt to get tough.