He felt like an oaf for not only stepping on her foot as they were dancing but, for crashing into the wall as he focused on avoiding her feet. From LearnThat.org.
This bulbous oaf is richer than his breakfast cheesecake. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Take That Anti-War Liberals!] Reference
We are only groping toward the effective expression oaf democratic doctrine, and today what do we see?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Democracy Outworn] Reference
If you don't make her warm enough for wiving, you're an oaf, which is not in my blood -- nor your mother's, to be honest. From Wordnik.com. [The Highwayman] Reference
Anagram for "oaf," from the man who famously took the "oaf of office.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama wants to turn his "YouTubing-Facebooking-texting-Twittering grass-roots organization ... into an instrument of government."] Reference
The 'oaf' is apparently entertaining the troops in Afghanistan and staying in an operational post not in Kabul. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
I must collect myself, before she thought me an oaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
That's what I need, a mindless oaf to do my bidding. From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
I felt as if I looked like an oaf, but how I appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
Instead, that power is vouchsafed to an oaf like you. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
Always reasonable, good-natured, grinning like an oaf. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
"You don't need a library, you clumsy oaf," the walk said. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
"I'll Dylanize you, you fatuous oaf," Helva cut in angrily. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp. From Wordnik.com. [Hoot]
The oaf shambled along, his arm no longer around Gerda's waist. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Levine comes across as an oaf, Boesky a loon, Siegel a neurotic. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street: A Greed Apart] Reference
Some oaf from the police even wanted to question one of my boys. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
Rapp pointed over his shoulder at the slumbering oaf in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Act of Treason]
"Evidently more than you, you moronic oaf," the centaur snapped back. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
"It's the oaf who is last to forgive his own clumsiness, I'm afraid.". From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
With Bill Forrester dead, then, had she turned to the oaf for comfort?. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Was he simply a powerful oaf, who relied on pure strength and savagery?. From Wordnik.com. [Alarm Clock] Reference
Viewed objectively, there was nothing wrong with what the oaf was doing. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Mm, so if you take that “word” apart, you get “me eat at lo oaf”. From Wordnik.com. [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference
Just another example of where the lumbering oaf Broon is so out of touch. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Will ye thank your gods (being 'umble) that the fool and the oaf are found. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference
“Do you see me being a proper little wife to some oaf of a tradesman?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
He spoke in such a friendly way that I would have been an oaf to ignore him. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
'You great oaf!' cried Mrs. Mountain, irritated for once into open rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
"Gimme that bag back you big oaf," Dan say, "I'm gettin soakin wet out here.". From Wordnik.com. [Forrest Gump]
For a double second he had the oaf alone on his hands and that was sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
"You're not related to that oaf I just sent out of here this morning, are you?". From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Kin]
"What other tricks can you show me, you oaf, before I make you into fish food?". From Wordnik.com. [The Saturn Game]
You co-opt them to be a part oaf the Iraqi security forces, like a national guard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006] Reference
"Don't get the idea that I'm afraid of you -- you overmuscled oaf," Kennon snapped. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
“Where's that oaf Burgundus?” he asked as they spilled out into the swirling snow. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Another was his mother, pleading with him to behave like a lord, not some drunken oaf. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
He and Joe were well matched and with the oaf as an ally really he had all the best of it. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
‘Get off me, you oaf!’ she gasped as the carpeted ridges bit into her squirming thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
Hugh was a tenderfoot, an oaf, yet she'd not heard him tracking her to the hot-springs lake. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
“Professor Snape sent them into the Forbidden Forest, to do some work for the oaf, Hagrid.”. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
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