TERRIBLY in a Sentence

Learn TERRIBLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

264 example sentences for TERRIBLY, such as:

1. I had a terrible dream last night.
2. He was terribly tiresome with the servants.
3. To her expert eye, the painting was terrible.
4. His mother told me about it, she's terribly upset.
5. When she came to the clearing she was terribly uneasy.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRIBLY
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terribly
 ad.  dreadfully; frightfully; to a great extent; very much
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  Anyhow everything was terribly silly, and she was exasperatedly bored by it all, by Clifford, by Aunt Eva, by Olive and Jack, and Winterslow, and even by Dukes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  But the fourth day she was terribly unsettled and uneasy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  She felt the front of his body terribly near to her, and alive.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  When she came to the clearing she was terribly uneasy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
6  He was terribly tiresome with the servants.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  His mother told me about it, she's terribly upset.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  I found my father expiring upon the ground, with his head terribly injured.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11  The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
12  She had been terribly excited immediately after his disappearance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
13  He was deadly pale and terribly emaciated, with the protruding, brilliant eyes of a man whose spirit was greater than his strength.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
14  He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
15  His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  It wasn't a serious heart attack, but it gave him a terrible scare.
17  There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
18  I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
19  He became known as the enfant terrible of British theater.
20  It was a terrible shock to discover the full extent of the problem.
21  I had a terrible dream last night.
22  To her expert eye, the painting was terrible.
23  She had an uneasy feeling that something terrible was going to happen.
24  I felt terrible last night but I feel fine this morning.
25  It was a terrible thing to happen to someone so young.
26  He is incapable of discriminating between a good idea and a terrible one.
27  The message I recorded for the answering machine sounded terrible when I played it back.
28  This research is a terrible indictment on the medical profession.
29  The terrible scenes were indelibly imprinted on his mind.
30  Mother Nature had served up some terrible weather for their cruise.