AWFUL in a Sentence

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237 example sentences for AWFUL, such as:

1. I've had a really awful haircut.
2. She still has an awful lot to learn.
3. It was just awful from the beginning.
4. The poor little bugger got an awful shock.
5. Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.

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 Meanings and Examples of AWFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
awful
 a.  causing fear, dread, or terror; extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But Mrs. Hale had said, "You've had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome," and he felt less alone with his misery.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  It was just awful from the beginning.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Ashley Wilkes said they had an awful lot of scenery and music.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Surely, thought Scarlett, Pa will know whether this awful story is true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  And that awful Captain Butler, making you so conspicuous, and he's a terrible, terrible person, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Oh, she used awful grammar but I could see she was trying so hard to be elegant, poor thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  She would lead him a chase that would make up for even that awful humiliation of the day he witnessed her slapping Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  I won't think of him or Mother or any of these awful things now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  And she looked as if she took a pleasure in saying such awful things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  For an awful moment she feared he was going to ask about her livestock and she braced herself for a good lie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Ashley looked at Will quickly and then looked away, saying nothing but wondering if Will had the same awful suspicion which was haunting him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  Aunt Pitty told me about you last night and I--I just couldn't sleep all night for thinking how awful it was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Perhaps some of the awful things he said were true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
15  In the dark hours which followed, that awful fact overshadowed even her father's slow and difficult dying.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
2  The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
3  The curtains in the photo are an awful fifties maroon, the color of dried blood.
4  We didn't enjoy the day because the weather was so awful.
5  I feel awful about forgetting her birthday.
6  The awful truth about his disappearance finally dawned on her.
7  He has the most awful taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like.
8  She still has an awful lot to learn.
9  The poor little bugger got an awful shock.
10  I can't put up with this awful machine any longer.
11  The old machine used to make an awful racket.
12  He dressed them down for the awful performance.
13  I hardly slept at all and felt pretty awful.
14  We were faced with the awful reality of having nowhere to live.
15  I've had a really awful haircut.