| 1. | "You know he is as ungainly within as without. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | She follows her mother with ungainly steps, a mare leading her fillyfoal. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 5. | He may have been quite right in thinking so, for he was an odd-looking personage, with an ungainly figure and long iron-gray hair that touched his stooping shoulders, and a full, soft brown beard which he had worn ever since he was twenty. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 6. | Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with his head.. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |