Example sentences for: terribly

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

  • Not all of these surnames are terribly common, but they are all real, appearing in telephone books in the U.S., England, and Italy.

  • That leads to a natural follow-up question: What do parents consider terribly important?

  • From The Boys From Brazil (Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, alive and well and cloning Hitlers at a secret lab in the Brazilian Amazon) to Jurassic Park (Richard Attenborough alive and well and cloning velociraptors), Wells' basic formula has become familiar: an island; a Frankensteinian experiment; a Faustian scientist; something gone terribly, terribly wrong.

  • However, things go terribly wrong during the exhibition of one of these experiments: the mechanical arms fuse to Octavius's body while the inhibitor chip is disabled, resulting in the machine gaining partial control of his brain.

  • Hamsun wrote in Norwegian, of course; I do not know who translated Growth in the edition in which I originally read it (which I think was Modern Library), but as a teenager I was terribly impressed by the writing.


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