Want to use Awful correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like terrible or frightening.

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Awful in a sentence

Awful | Awfully | Awfulness

Awful meaning

  1. Very bad.
  2. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
  3. Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.

Synonyms of Awful

terrible dreadful frightening fearsome fearful dreaded dread direful dire bad unspeakable painful abominable atrocious horrendous

Example sentences (20)

And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so?

Derek Adams has called on Morecambe’s players to try and reverse the club’s awful run of away results this weekend.

At the start of "Joan is Awful," we meet Joan Tait, a regular woman (played by with a life and a job, and secrets.

And he was still there, an ever-present at United games even as the awful debilitation of dementia began to grip.

But if they are going to start including Black Knight, Blade and the god-awful Gi’ah, make it MI-13 and not Excalibur.

CSU was awful offensively in San Jose, CA Tuesday night, and the 9 p.m. MT tipoff may have affected the Rams.

For those of you who fall into one of these orders, investing in your ice maker is presumably an awful idea.

Here, it is not really the pandemic we are in danger of forgetting: that was a time when working from home could be awful.

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As reports, she shared a lovely message, Jane wrote: "So saddened to hear the awful news about Shane Hill’s tragic passing.

Hartlepool United waved goodbye to an awful 2023 with a 2-0 National League away defeat at Oldham Athletic.

I thought he called an awful game for the most part and several questionable decisions ended up backfiring for the Broncos.

But I can’t go to sleep without saying that the match officials were truly awful in their actions tonight.

But not everyone is a fan, with one shopper writing that while the product 'works well' it smells 'awful'.

Anything that wasn’t filtered through the awful prisms of the Joy Reids, Whoopi Goldbergs, and Joe Scarboroughs of the world.

He thanked the officers for their help in “preventing these awful things from entering our country and destroying our youth”.

However, others have called the wooden fence “awful” and “unreasonable” because it affects the road's “aesthetics” and views.

Given all the money in the world and a talented cast, that film was still truly awful and utterly lacking in any charm for me.

He was truly awful against the Orlando Magic, and he is in very real danger of losing his backup center spot to Tristan Thompson.

However, in an awful lot of cases this isn't going to bring prices down, they'll just get more expensive more slowly," she added.

In a world filled with monsters, disease and lawless streets, there are some downright awful jobs to have in The Witcher universe.

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Common combinations with awful

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • an awful 56×
  • awful lot 28×
  • the awful 17×
  • awful and 12×
  • is awful 12×
  • truly awful 10×
  • was awful
  • awful to
  • this awful
  • how awful

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "awful" in a sentence?
An example: "And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so?" This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "awful" from real English texts.
What does "awful" mean?
Awful means: Very bad.
What are synonyms of "awful"?
Common synonyms of "awful" include: terrible, dreadful, frightening, fearsome, fearful, dreaded, dread, direful. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "awful" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "awful", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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