狼狈

狼狈 lángbèi in a sentence

Awkward (in a difficult situation)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

狼狈 (lángbèi) means Awkward (in a difficult situation). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他 狼狈 地从会场退了出来。

Tā lángbèi de cóng huìchǎng tuì le chūlái.

He backed out of the hall in an awkward plight.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 狼狈

淋了一场雨,他显得十分 狼狈 。

Lín le yì chǎng yǔ, tā xiǎnde shífēn lángbèi.

Caught in the rain, he looked thoroughly bedraggled.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 狼狈

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How is 狼狈 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 狼狈 (lángbèi, "Awkward (in a difficult situation)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 狼狈 an HSK word?

Yes — 狼狈 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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