6 example sentences using awful.
Awful used in a sentence
Awful in a sentence as an adjective
Totally off topic but blogspot is just awful.
There could be an awful lot of days where you don't want to get out of bed, you don't want to do anything.
And who cares that it's video; from Comcast's or Verizon's perspective, it's just an awful lot of bytes.
Awful in a sentence as an adverb
I used to have a LinkedIn profile and from it all I got were the most awful recruiting experiences, and all of them through cold calls.
Microsoft Press was one of his favorite clients back in the day. Growing up, he'd tell me stories of disorganized secretaries at Microsoft sending him awful reference photos, so he'd look up the execs in the phonebook and call them at home.
You'll call me a cock, and then I'll rip you in half verbally, and then you'll forget that you called me a cock and go off telling everyone I'm such a big bad bullying meanie for all the horrible awful things I said to you, and then I'll be crushed by the general opinion all you highly influential meaningful people have about me that I'll...Wait, actually I don't give a **** what you think.
Awful definitions
exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
See also: atrocious abominable dreadful painful terrible unspeakable
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
See also: nasty
inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
See also: awed
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
See also: frightful terrible tremendous
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
See also: amazing awe-inspiring awesome awing
used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
See also: terribly awfully frightfully