Example sentences for: awfully

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

  • It is "almost old-fashioned in how satisfyingly scary it is" (Sherryl Connelly, Daily News ). David Kipen of the San Francisco Chronicle finds the book tedious: Nine days is "an awfully long time to spend in the largely unrelieved company of one little girl lost."

  • As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts "awfully stupid": "Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.

  • I realize this is a real story for the Times --Tom's River is in its circulation area, and the team is a powerhouse--but there was something awfully weird about the way the story was written, as if it were a big league game with big league ballplayers.

  • For all this about what is going wrong and could go wronger, the LAT is awfully light on what the U.S. wants the Japanese government to actually do, not going much beyond its remarks in the seventh paragraph about the desire for Japan to "stimulate and deregulate" its economy and bail out its insolvent banks.

  • condemnation of awful and awfully, preventative, taxidermist, transpire, of Latin and Greek sources for new words (e.g.


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