UNWIELDY in a Sentence

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1. A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
2. The large carton was so unwieldy that the movers had trouble getting it up the stairs.
3. The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNWIELDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unwieldy
 a.  difficult to use or handle because of size, weight, or shape; lacking grace in movement or posture
Classic Sentence:
1  It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terrified animals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  For a while she thumped the gates so vigorously as to set all the dogs barking; then the gates stiffly opened, and admitted this unwieldy phenomenon of the road.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  The large carton was so unwieldy that the movers had trouble getting it up the stairs.
2  A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.