She had left as a gawky teenager, who in memory seemed the very model of adolescent incapacity.

Becton nodded, and he also grinned like a gawky, goofy teenager.

His skin was so white in the glare of the flash pictures that he looked like a gawky little teenager who was raised underground by moles.

The result is undeniably rugged, but the proportions seem off - like a gawky teenager after a spurt of hormone-driven growth.

It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager, arriving in a new town, terribly self-conscious at being a new student.

But he was like a big, gawky teenager, new to his strength.

I'd been fighting bulimia ever since I was shipped off to boarding school as a gawky teenager.

Young vines, under 20 years old, are like teenagers: gawky, unruly and unpredictable.

'We forget about tailing a gawky teenager whose only crime is playing Scrabble.'

Nothing to suggest that he was anything other than a typical gawky teenager.