Example sentences for: awful

How can you use “awful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There’s an awful lot to detain you in Barcelona, but just beyond the city are several sites eminently worthy of day trips, including the holy Catalan shrine Montserrat, the relaxed beach- and-museum town of Sitges, and the cava wine country in the region of Penedès.

  • I think it's all right for museums to have awful art.

  • Generally, "natural" pastes (Tom's of Maine Natural Toothpaste) taste awful, first because they lack bite but also because they use "natural" flavoring ingredients such as papaya (Rembrandt Natural).

  • The timing is awful, advocates concede, as the state legislature weighs what to do about an expected $1.

  • "The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.


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