How do you use Awfully in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like terribly or awful, plus the exact meaning.
Awfully meaning
- Badly, terribly.
- Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively.
- In a manner inspiring awe.
Synonyms of Awfully
Using Awfully
- The main meaning on this page is: Badly, terribly. | Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively. | In a manner inspiring awe.
- Useful related words include: terribly, awful, frightfully, dreadfully.
- In the example corpus, awfully often appears in combinations such as: an awfully, be awfully, is awfully.
Context around Awfully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Awfully
- In this selection, "awfully" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seem, got, look, close, long and content stand out and add context to how "awfully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be awfully awfully content imposing and be skirting awfully close to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "awfully" sits close to words such as allspring, aloft and asparagus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with awfully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After all, 250 million years is awfully far away. (9 words)
The surrounding development, on the other hand, could look awfully familiar. (11 words)
And they do seem to be awfully, awfully content, imposing something shockingly similar. (13 words)
My solution is to lazily acquire gold but also crypto, because gold has an awfully long history of value and crypto has a bright long-term future whatever the short term. Diversification is good but it is still not the time to go boots first into either. (47 words)
When you discuss about risk, I mean, it has been always a risk to go to the Nordic country because it can be awfully cold, never, I mean, the rain was like I experienced when I was 10 years old. (40 words)
The corresponding fixture from last May has come to feel an awfully long way away, the perception being that much has changed at both clubs; Arsenal locating an ignition point to spark in spectacular fashion, Spurs crunching into reverse. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
And they do seem to be awfully, awfully content, imposing something shockingly similar.
After all, 250 million years is awfully far away.
For a state known for innovation, Californians seem awfully comfortable with population’s status quo.
In awfully windy conditions at Sky Stadium, hosts Wellington took it up to City and were only beaten by Wilkinson's 73rd-minute tap-in.
In typical PNC style, he is saying we have given you that “good life” then, however now it is an awfully dirty deal so it is the PPP/C’s job to clean it up.
It just seems like Sharon is awfully invested in rebooting this company, so Chance may feel like he’s being cast aside as this Y&R storyline moves along.
Last season, the Cats got awfully close to qualifying for the post-season but missed out by one premiership point.
My solution is to lazily acquire gold but also crypto, because gold has an awfully long history of value and crypto has a bright long-term future whatever the short term. Diversification is good but it is still not the time to go boots first into either.
That kickoff is awfully early, though, for a bunch of dudes from L.A. Now we find how good a job Deion Sanders is doing in Boulder.
That’s the time you want Landy, although it’s an awfully big ask for a 30-year-old coming off three knee procedures in 19 months.
The corresponding fixture from last May has come to feel an awfully long way away, the perception being that much has changed at both clubs; Arsenal locating an ignition point to spark in spectacular fashion, Spurs crunching into reverse.
The surrounding development, on the other hand, could look awfully familiar.
This makes RCL stock an awfully dangerous one to hold going into a recession.
Those Glock models that can be turned into selectable-fire machine guns seem to be skirting awfully close to qualifying under those sorts of conditions due to how simple replacing that backplate is.
We all know that the Devils season came to an end too quickly and that next year is looking awfully promising.
We’ll admit it – puppies and kittens are awfully cute and fun to play with, but sometimes, there is just too much of a good thing.
We've been awfully consistent in the markets in which we're looking to grow and expand primary focus in many, many of top 40 MSA continues to be our focus in high quality, solid demographic markets.
What Seth’s father didn’t do was alert the authorities, a decision that seems awfully close to ignoring child endangerment.
When you discuss about risk, I mean, it has been always a risk to go to the Nordic country because it can be awfully cold, never, I mean, the rain was like I experienced when I was 10 years old.
Doug: Yes, it was awfully nice when Rachel, Lew and Johnny Cash came over and helped me write my blog.
Common combinations with awfully
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an awfully 26×
- be awfully 10×
- is awfully 10×
- awfully close 8×
- awfully big 6×
- awfully familiar 6×
- was awfully 6×
- awfully hard 6×
- looks awfully 6×
- awfully long 5×