awful
Example Sentences
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"Awful performance, considering the opposition. With the incentive of the other results, to put a performance in like that - but it's been like this all season," said Carragher.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
“The Most Awful Responsibility” sympathetically portrays Truman’s conflicted soul over the mass death inflicted by the atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
They were mostly young Black and brown kids wearing some combination of Chiefin Heavily, That’s An Awful Lot of Cough Syrup and earlier runs of Drakeo merch.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
Awful things will happen before we are not done.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
As every day passed you could see the panic on more and more people’s faces, and the rest carefully composed their features to look somber and made clucking noises and said How Awful It Was.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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