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Sentence Examples She needs to put things in perspective and ask herself if it really matters that he doesn't own a flash car or that he wears awful shoes. Our recent form has been awful, we've had a loss of form and a loss of confidence. Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely. Naturists make an awful lot of fuss about the fact that we were all born naked to justify their peculiar inclination to carry on being naked. Having twirled in a frock, he dons jackboots to play Adolf Hitler in Springtime for Hitler, the production's howlingly awful play-within-a-play. There's an awful lot of research that's required still in order to optimise the process. The virus would have been pretty awful if it had taken control of a large number of computers and started replicating itself. A shame though, as I've been listening to her most recent two albums an awful lot of late. If it wasn't a private firm, we would probably be hearing an awful lot more about it. That's an awful amount of time to be locked up in the water closet, not to mention the effect on your health! It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful. While the transfer on the DVD showed improvement over the awful picture on the laserdisc, it was not first rate even then. Had an awful headache, the back is still sore, but most the other achiness has gone away. Harry has decided to rename anything with an awful name, and they get onto the subject of what names mean. It'll take an awful lot more than a few interactive websites to sort that mess out. An awful lot of landed gentry are going to end up in the docks for cultivation of a Class A drug on their land. I think that this is awful but would feel worse if the animals had been taken out of the wild where they had been free, and put into cages. By and large, the television reports were uniformly awful, in my opinion, with a rah-rah patriotism that television excels at. Placed in a wilderness of dark mountains, the scene is relieved by a flood of glaring light that holds the figures in a tableau of awful impact. It made you do silly things and it gave you an awful headache, but we never worried about the risks, let alone the long-term health consequences. Show More Sentences The Academy Award-winning actress is so awful in this film that words fail me. On some of the trips we have had around the world, if you didn't take your own kit you had to fish with some pretty awful stuff. Dr David said Annabel's death was an awful tragedy but the family was comforted by the fact she was with God. However, radio reception on MW and LW bands was simply awful, though this is probably a matter of adjustment. Richardson, for most of the movie, gives a fair, airy performance, but her final scene is beyond awful. You place your hand on his forehead, thinking Napoleon is going to look awful silly windmilling his arms while you yawn safely out of reach. That's an awful long time for an application to be kicking around the patent office. But the arctic conditions we have just experienced are nothing compared to some of the truly awful winters endured by people in the last century. But people really ought to be ecstatic because it's become such an awful place to work. Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread. There is an awful lot of reality TV on television at the moment, I think it has gone mad, there's just so much of it. He liked the young Miss and thought the way Master Charles went whoring around behind her back was awful. I've been looking at some pictures of when I first came and I've aged an awful lot. He was married to Judy, an apple-cheeked gardener in a straw hat who used to produce awful movies right alongside us. Then the transfer over onto CD from the tapes is appalling, losing an awful lot of the bottom end. What an awful show with bad acting, lousy scripts, ridiculous effects, and poor lighting. I've met an awful lot of drug dealers but I've never met one who's retired to Devon. Regulars said there were an awful lot of people there who'd never been to St Brigid's before. Not that any of that matters, but if these guys mess up again, an awful lot of people are going to get mad. She spent eight weeks flat on her back completely still and another eight weeks in this awful body cast. Show More Sentences Then one day in the middle of summer, we were giving them an awful licking. The shadow emitted a terrible sound, an awful wheeze of frenzied laughter suppressed until it became strangling. February is the month when there is no vegetation to cover this awful advertisement for the town. If you don't give up this anti-life behavior, something awful is bound to happen. No matter, both locations are stunningly beautiful, and the shots of wide seas, mountains and endless skies makes up for an awful load of waffle. We still see evidence of abiding bigotry and intolerance, in ugly words and awful violence, in burned churches and bombed buildings. Despite this, the flesh was much sought after by indigenous people as a source of food and medicine, but I couldn't get past the revoltingly awful smell to try it. You must be feeling awful. I went through something similar myself last year, so I can relate. The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America. However, not all awful, astoundingly dumb political memes are created equal. Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made. On and offline, offenses ranged from awful Tinder messages to violent threats on Twitter to street stalking. The book got awful reviews even as it topped The New York Times bestseller list. I had an awful episode when I boiled two pounds of fresh broccoli in a plastic bag with the nail clipper for heat. Well, they finally admitted they agree on everything, you know, after months of trying to paint one another as wackos, they come out and tell us the awful truth. She wakes from a coma a few days later to learn the awful truth. Somehow in my awful, writhing state I notice that he is wall-eyed. All the parts for women are awful, and chauvinistic and they have to play a shrew. We have ripped out al of the awful rabbit warren of rooms and are hopefully on the way to converting it back to the former glory that it once was. But that stretch of road is awful, an accident waiting to happen. Show More Sentences I bought their single Pin Your Heart and although the title track itself is a jangly guitar pop classic, I found the B-sides so awful that I never actually bought the album. Clarice would never have shared the awful screaming of the lambs to Dr. Lecter. The burning heavy plastic caused acrid smoke which left a thick layer of soot on over everything in the room and means an awful lot of cleaning up. Question them, and you are colluding in exacerbating the awful effects of their trauma. The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands. By now the air in the room was awful, hanging with the smell of cordite, lit only by the muzzle flashes. They have created this awful situation where people can come and live so affluently, and so many others can't afford a decent roof over their heads. But these awful, counterproductive measures are almost par for the course when it comes to bipartisan policymaking. The local farmers have had an awful task to deal with their silage and baled hay this season with the weather spoiling and causing so much hassle. They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday. The rural vote still counts for an awful lot more than other votes. For indoor cats, my kitties spend an awful lot of time outside. Family rows are awful experiences with few redeeming features. In the saturation coverage that followed the Connecticut school massacre, some in the media made an awful mistake. While one brewing insider said that the chilled hybrid mix of lager and ale was way ahead of its time, most others though it was really pretty awful. And, regretfully, it is extremely unlikely that we'll see him emerging from his shower a few months later, complaining about the awful dream he had last night. So far, five episodes of LA Shrinks have aired, and I find them disconcertingly awful. I was made to believe that being a girl was such a disgrace and I was something really awful. Only two years ago, with awful economic numbers and a dispirited opposition, he was riding high. It's bad enough people yabbering on when you're in a library but when it comes to brain-bubbling, mind-twistingly awful ring tones, there should be no escape. Show More Sentences The job market in philosophy went from awful to dreadful starting in 2008 and has never really recovered. The audience laps it up as further confirmation of how awful the war is and that the real threat to democracy is the Americans' abuse of human rights. Fruit cocktails are not just awful, they are yuck, especially re-fresher. I'm not sure what was the most laughably awful thing about this movie. The speeches can sometimes be awful but his was very amusing. There was not an awful lot wrong with the performance and while getting beat is never welcomed you can normally suffer a reverse more easily if you known you've played well. After much hype and fanfare, the London reviews are in, and most of them are awful. There is no light at the end of this awful dark, painful tunnel. An awful lot of your money being used to shore up Bank of America. Many animals and insects that taste awful, sting or can otherwise turn a good day sour have adapted this warning-label strategy, known as aposematic coloration. When I think of Frankenstein, I have these visions of Robert De Niro in awful makeup. The cost in lives, ships, and weapons of that D-day assault was awful. Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me. For many residents, a monocrop of million-dollar homes is nearly as awful a nightmare as suburban sprawl. The awful tragedy, for the orchestra, was that eventually we were not able to play the standard classics. She was deemed the worst dressed in that awful Chanel dress, but Keira Knightley's butterfly bag managed to set my heart aflutter. The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world. Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful. Jennifer Lopez is her usual spunky self as his daughter-in-law, Jean, who fell asleep at the wheel that awful night. John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful. Show More Sentences Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not. The Bill is going to apply to a much wider group of people and I think it will sweep an awful lot of things under the carpet. Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often. To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds. It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help. This morning, I promise cross my heart straight Dinkum will be the last, the very last, of our awful moments. He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout. New wave pioneers Blondie celebrated their 40th anniversary last year and the band has an awful lot to thank its lead singer for. The first recording session was awful, terrifying,'' said Witherspoon, who also learned how to play the Autoharp. He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money. He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then. Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel. I had eaten a rib eye steak and my whole mouth was thickly coated with this awful grease. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect. My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful. They felt very sorry for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits. He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful. My first couple of movies as a cinematographer, the lighting was awful. Familiarity aside, the film isn't funny with the gags and forced zaniness teeth-gnashingly awful. Show More Sentences True, there are some workplaces that are awful and irredeemable, and maybe those of us who like our jobs are merely lucky enough to avoid those. The pitch was as awful as I have seen and as a result the ball spent far too much time up aheight for my liking. Beer was lumped in with the rest of booze, and for 13 awful years, not one legal drop of precious amber fluid could be found between San Francisco and New York City. Even someone upset about something as serious and awful as cancer wasn't safe from my world's smallest violin. Well, you have cancer. That sucks but cancer has been beaten. I don't want to be an awful judgy-pants about this, obviously. You must have had the patience of a saint to sit through that awful film! He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study. We know that cows, pigs and sheep do an awful lot of belching and blooping and those belches and bloops introduce a significant amount of methane into the atmosphere. But there's an awful lot of artiness, pretentiousness and general flouncing-about that spoils what could have been a much tighter, funnier and emotionally rewarding film. Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing. With such awful taste, it's little wonder I love Secret Santa novelties. The worst thing about my wife's pregnancy was her awful mood swings. Sure, sheAAEs a middling rapper and an awful dancer, but she still remains larger than life thanks to curatorial superpowers that border on Warholian. Mr. Herbert makes his moan over the awful one-handedness and one-leggedness of our rich classes, who are smitten with the universal incapacity to help theniselves. I can read and understand most texts in German, but my speaking is awful. It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do. An awful struggle for Primrose. Her chin stretched up above a mumpy neck. Sister Raymond put a wet cloth on her forehead, dribbled some water across her mouth. Examples from Classical Literature This awful creature came slowly up from the Antarctic Ocean, toward the ships full of people. At first the greengrocer's baby did not like bananas and its cries were awful. At that chillest, most awful moment of all the circle of time, Mrs. Forrester had sunk into half-unconsciousness. The peak of this awful spur was just touched by a fleecy cloud that shifted to and fro like a banneret. I've got such an awful lot of stuff that I want to dictate it right off the bat. And even as she prayed, the awful Erinys, who wanders through the air, heard her words and swore to accomplish the doom. On one awful day the second master announced to me that my battels would be stopped. The adjutant general's report gives the per cent as forty in this awful charge. I did not see very much because I held a collarette up to my face to protect it from the hot air, which was unutterably awful. All power being given to the awful enemy, he is beautiful where he pleases, in order to point and envenom his ghostly ugliness. The program of entertainment was awful enough, if deadly mediocrity is awful. Of him and of his recruits in South Africa, Churchill spoke with the awful frankness of the enfant terrible. There has been awful fighting in Alsace lately, so the wounded must come soon. I trusted you sufficiently, Jones, to belive you wouldn't have brought me on a useless errand at such a time of awful anxiety. The moaning of the wind in the great mountain gullies and cwms rendered the scene both awful and sublime. It sounded awful, the firm way he said it, like teeth or appendixes which must be extracted. And so for the time being, at least, ended the awful work of the flying fish. Even concussion of the brain had failed to deaden the memory of that awful night. And still he dreaded the approach of the day when he should decipher its awful meaning. But to the younger Duryea, in his intense effort to forget the awful past, her name as well as her madness must be forgotten. Show More Sentences My son hasnt a cent, repeated Mr. Seaver, but he must have quailed under the awful look Molly tells me your aunt gave him at this. It was awful to Harriett that her father should be ill, lying there at their mercy. An awful hour for Bismarck, conscious of the load of responsibility which he carried. From man to man swept the awful rumor that at San Carlos, Rojas had not been found. Boys were flogged when criminals were hanged, to impress the awful warning on them. Sister Smith, mother of sardius and Alma, has told some of the experiences which she passed through during that awful time. Reference has already been made to Dr. Frazer's view of the saturnalian king and his awful origin. While my company was in support one day my corporal and I managed to scrounge into a pill-box away from the awful mud. Mrs. Lynde said she was very pretty but kind of actressy looking, and must have been an awful lot younger than father. Isn't it an awful shame, to turn you off merely because you didn't pass the exam? Why, she and Jack were both born in Mars' month, and each had a bloodstone, and each had to answer to an awful call for courage. Though the expression of despair on the duke's face was truly awful, the bonesetter could not repress a smile. The awful thing was that she couldn't love him, couldn't go on being faithful. Remember the time they had with those awful five-legged things from Canis Major? Have they considered the awful consequences likely to flow from their representations of Virtue? Suddenly the awful thought came to him that, although he had paid Saint Harvey cash money, he had nothing to show for it. Too awful it is for an aged man to bide and bear, that his bairn so young rides on the gallows. Wotan did not stop to think what an awful thing it would be to lose Freya. How awful that this should have to happen in Aiken of all cities. I've got on a pair of Wee Watts' now, and they sag something awful. Show More Sentences Schomberg, a brawny, hairy Alsatian, and an awful gossip, assured me that it was all right. It was awful to reflect how many sermons must have been written there. In this damp weather it is awful, I wake up in the night and find it hanging over me. To the two watchers there was a curious and profound dignity in the firm lines of his awful face. The beauty contest was an awful damper to them, especially Miss Weyman. But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me. Benita felt that the act was just, and the awful punishment deserved. Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Comrade Ossipon met the shock of this blasphemy by an awful, vacant stare. What an awful crash of buffers, in the midst of headlong gaiety! The awful thought had come upon her that this ambassadress had come to her as a proxy with a proposal of marriage. By the time we reached our destination the storm had become truly awful. Crupp's daughter in disguise, we had such an awful time of it with Mary Anne. I get awful homesick for them, all the same,' she murmured, as if she were answering some remembered reproach. These two awful inventions are to music what the chromo is to painting. He waited there in awful suspense as it dropped in little jerks, inch by inch. Even my raggedy cuticles and awful, peeling nails looked so much better with just a few uses. Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. The store-room, the linen-presses, the china-closet, the kitchen and cellar, that day, all went under an awful review. There was no mistaking that awful, motionless, crumpled posture. Show More Sentences Think you will be able to live through this awful winter, dal? The ruck ordinarily had such awful names, Jark and dack and Orp. A back door was partly open, as if by neglect, and their first thought was that the authors of the awful revelry might have escaped. The latter informs the party that she bequeths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy. Superstition had lent its awful power to the sanctions of religion. In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense. Spenlow, beseeching him not to visit upon her the consequences of my awful destiny. I'm awful glad you didn't tell emulous you was the minister. The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray. The suddenness, the loudness of it made the ensuing silence on both sides of the door perfectly awful. We must offer an expiatory sacrifice to Oromasis, for, awful thought! Some turn off from their voluntary pilgrimage down the Iss, and, scaling the awful walls of its canyon below us, stop in the valley. Of course, in all of its awful details it never can be fitly written. It must have been awful in that flivver, coming along here, Harry said. I don't know how long I was asleep, but all of a sudden there was an awful scream and I was up. With an effort he focused his mind back on that awful day and began. Aristotle vindicated the awful crimes of foeticide and infanticide. Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. Now they knew all the awful truth, and stared at each other like dumb men. She's awful clever, and none but a clever one durst say a word to her. Show More Sentences There was an awful lot of Em being converted to EE off Marduk, today. A temperance lecturer saw him, and wrought poor David into the texture of his evening's discourse, as an awful instance of dead drunkenness by the roadside. She ended lamely, a little quiver in her own voice as she thought of the three men, upon whom she depended for protection, wandering in the depth of that awful forest. And when the awful rite was finished, and with cold hand in cold hand, the Married of Eternity withdrew, the organ's peal of solemn triumph drowned the Wedding Knell. But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea. Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household. In silence, which was broken now only by a low and ominous rumble, more menacing than had been the awful fury of the elements, the travelers looked. And then he raged right along with his awful tale, everybody a-staring and gasping, judge, jury, lawyers, and everybody, and Benny and Aunt Sally crying their hearts out. Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and ever speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? We want to be awful square and open and above-board here, you know. They should have seen what an awful money-grabbing wheedler I was. And perhaps he was cheered by keeping his eye on a chance of promotion to the fleet at Ravenna by-and-by, if he had good friends in Rome and survived the awful climate. 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