awful

Example Sentences

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"Ultimately, the recipe has to be good – there are some really awful ones," she says, referencing strange combinations she has seen in cookbooks, including banana and herring and lamb and crab.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

"I think it's awful, to be honest. It's hard enough to make a living without things like this happening," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The “courtesy” of you go first wastes an awful lot of minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Over the next day, "they will be on the far side of the Moon, they will eclipse that record, and we're going to learn an awful lot about the spacecraft," said Isaacman.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

“Yeah, right,” he replied, remembering how awful he’d felt when Vivian had accused him of being a criminal.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman