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    Use "awful" in a sentence

    awful example sentences

    awful


    1. historical use has now been replaced by an awful reality; I actually


    2. “What the fuck is that awful stench?”


    3. it must be awful for him, being on his own in the house where they lived together


    4. Dan’s a bloody awful liar!


    5. When Frank started Baggy today, the bagging machine let out an awful sneeze and blew all of the bags into the reject bin


    6. What about you, boy? You’re awful


    7. cooker, he could see none of the awful animals anywhere


    8. ‘Yes, it was awful, Mum


    9. "There is nothing awful about it Melinda


    10. ‘Sometimes – pretty awful most of them, though you do get the odd one who has a bit of sense about her

    11. Props then put in all the furniture we are going to use – the space available once they have finished looks an awful lot smaller than we are used to


    12. A little later, as we were chatting on, I complained about the awful noise made by cars at the outdoor garage below my window every night; he expressed his understanding and then he asked smiling: “Outdoor garage? What's does ''outdoor'' mean?”


    13. Ten minutes later, after sharing a warming moment with tea and cigarettes, throughout which Menachem told awful jokes, Robbie returned to settle us down for the evening


    14. Four bodies dumped in the dirt at an abandoned and decrepit farm somewhere in the nether reaches of this damnable, awful little island


    15. ‘Whatever shall I do without him, Berndt?’ she asked, putting into words the awful truth that had blasted at her all the way from the wasteg


    16. I have to say that she was horrified when she heard that you’d been attacked – she’s been seriously scared, Karalintze … not that I’d want to excuse her action or in any way minimise the awful attack you experienced, but she never intended you any harm


    17. You know you suddenly seem to know an awful lot about the lay of the land around here, I told him


    18. It was growling and slobbering something awful


    19. When we divorced he said awful things - things that just festered over the years


    20. “Hey, what happened to my clothes!” he was looking at his pants, “my feet hurt too! My shoes are pinching my feet something awful

    21. There was an awful scene back at the family home when Kirk and Ruby arrived in the back of a police car


    22. I turned to run and slipped and fell in some awful foul smelling liquid; it was dragon pee, and it saved my life


    23. "That's an awful lot of vector from our current course," he said


    24. And she is awful at it


    25. 'That's an awful lot of paraphernalia you've got there, Alexi,' I whispered, indicating all the pieces on the little altar


    26. There was no doubt we had witnessed some awful power unleashed and whether it was an abnormally fierce Etesian wind or something else I do not know, but I do realise that I will never forget the systematic destruction of that boat


    27. She withdrew from her mother and no matter how desperate the look in her mother’s alcohol skewed eyes, she would not be drawn back into the bosom of her mother’s awful love, which is why, as the days passed and the new song hit the headlines and the airwaves, the only person who knew anything of it or enjoyed its strange and comforting melodies was Lucy, who saw no reason to share her comfort with anyone else


    28. Alarm’s going off; feel awful


    29. It was awful to see how his


    30. It would be an awful

    31. There was an awful scene back at the family home when Kirk


    32. snagging on a splinter in the chair back, so that, after an awful,


    33. mother’s awful love, which is why, as the days passed and the new


    34. I feel that his treatment of her, combined with her own innate shame, both at the awful abortion event and the discovery of her own sexuality, left her with no self-esteem at all


    35. What does she mean by that? 25 August … hang on, surely that wasn’t the day she had the abortion? Oh, how awful for her! Sounds as though she had more than an inkling about the seriousness of her condition though


    36. Behind her the sound of normality, the sound of alcoholic conversation, continues as if nothing has happened to disturb the awful equilibrium of the evening


    37. The flare was clearly visible even in this awful weather


    38. Billy can't face the awful prospect of waking the Cascarino household


    39. “That’s awful,” she said, wiping the corner of her mouth and making a sour


    40. was warm and tasted awful

    41. choking and that awful pull trying to ungrip my fingers


    42. ‘Thank you for coming, it has been awful here


    43. hands and looked in the mirror above the sink, making an awful sound like he was


    44. What an awful concept


    45. The sound was awful, the sound that


    46. still hear the awful sounds of those dogs begging for their freedom


    47. Heather continued to stare at the awful sight on the arena floor


    48. As the weeks rolled on, talk of The Flower and his awful circus faded


    49. awful bed was more than he could bear!


    50. It was an awful sound—laughter that sprang from














































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    Synonyms for "awful"

    awful dire direful dread dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible abominable atrocious painful unspeakable amazing awe-inspiring awesome awing nasty frightful tremendous awed awfully frightfully terribly appalling formidable horrible shocking

    "awful" definitions

    exceptionally bad or displeasing


    causing fear or dread or terror


    offensive or even (of persons) malicious


    inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence


    extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact


    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder


    used as intensifiers