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Example sentences for "awfully"

Lexicographically close words:
awey; awfu; awful; awfull; awfullest; awfulness; awheel; awhile; awhirl; awin
  1. Oh, yes, it must be awfully funny," replied young Ripley testily.

  2. We weren't so very stylish ourselves, but we had some awfully stylish neighbors--all those Terrace Row people, just around the corner.

  3. Then she had bolted through the viscounts and barons: "This one's awfully new--only from 1810.

  4. But you sat in an awfully bad light, for one thing.

  5. I'm awfully fond of that place, already--the whole of it.

  6. You don't seem so; you look awfully ornamental, with that ribbon and all.

  7. I expect I shall seem awfully insipid," he said to himself.

  8. Truesdale, you know; he's awfully good to me.

  9. You're awfully good to me, Dicky," she whispered, as he led her back.

  10. They're awfully offended," said Gladys, continuing her confidential tone.

  11. William, here's an awfully good girl; her father thinks as much of her as I do of you.

  12. And it makes me awfully sorry to see the Judge so distressed at times.

  13. Don't you get awfully tired studying up something to preach about?

  14. I wish you were not so awfully busy all the time.

  15. It seems to me that I have done such an awfully mean thing in making love to you in my own home, and then in changing.

  16. In fact, you in your quietness, think awfully of that which for years was to me like breathing!

  17. Anne does mean to think, but she does it the wrong way; she gets her head so full of some one thing that she forgets everything else, and then she's awfully sorry.

  18. Anne and I promised her we'd be awfully careful and good.

  19. And poor mums began walking up and down the room, squeezing her hands together in a way she has when she's awfully worried.

  20. It's so awfully dull to see Anne going about with such a long face,' she said the second evening, when we were all sitting with mother.

  21. For it was the beginning of Hebe's being awfully ill.

  22. She particular--much more particular than Anne, though not quite as particular as I'd like her to be, and then she is really awfully sweet.

  23. It must have been awfully muddling for her.

  24. We were awfully pleased though when the day came at last for us all to start.

  25. She's awfully sensible; something like Hebe and Maud mixed together, though to look at her she's more like Anne.

  26. But you have been awfully good and sweet about it--as I shan't forget.

  27. And he looked most awfully nice the whole time!

  28. I haven't seen you since your garden party, and you certainly didn't offend me then--you were awfully nice to us all!

  29. The rooms are most awfully crowded, and you dance too well for one; besides, one's anxious to hear your impressions of a London ball.

  30. I’m awfully much obliged to you,” said Russell.

  31. I can sell you your kind,” Russell returned, “but I’d like awfully to have you try one of these.

  32. But he was awfully nice and said we deserved encouragement and--and all that.

  33. Well, I’m awfully glad it’s turned out so well.

  34. I'd think it awfully funny if it was happening to any of my friends--but this is terrible!

  35. But you have escaped from all that, and I really can't understand why you should be so awfully cruel to the poor girl.

  36. Well, yes; awfully savage, and all that kind of thing.

  37. I do not think that poor Cecilia has had it at all hotter than she has deserved; and when you tell me that I have been awfully cruel to the poor girl, you seem to forget that the poor girl began the war by being awfully cruel to me.

  38. Maude Hippesley, who had not lived in the same town with her lover and therefore had never quarrelled with him, was awfully wise.

  39. One young woman treated me awfully rough, to tell the truth.

  40. Those avaricious and ungodly tyrants among you, I am awfully afraid will drag down the vengeance of God upon you.

  41. You're awfully thoughtful, Harry," she said.

  42. Of course, I feel awfully sorry for the Pratts, but I'm glad that, if it had to happen to them, we came along in time to help them.

  43. I'm awfully sorry Gladys is cutting up so.

  44. I'm awfully sorry," she went on shamefacedly, "but Gladys was awfully silly.

  45. I never saw one before, but they certainly are splendid, and they're awfully easy to make.

  46. You see, the reason they were so mean to us is that they are awfully proud, and they think they're better than any other people.

  47. But Allingford's put a stop to almost all that kind of thing: he's captain of the school, and he's always awfully down on anything of that sort.

  48. I'm awfully sorry, but there were some letters came for you chaps this morning.

  49. It's awfully bad form of a chap who's a prefect chumming up with a fellow like Mouler in the Upper Fourth," said Carton one afternoon.

  50. I've done it," he said, looking awfully solemn.

  51. Awfully hard lines I call it," said the cricketers.

  52. Awfully brickish of them I call it, considering that it was only a kid like Bayley.

  53. He was about fourteen, and she's a grown-up woman; and he was awfully gone, I can tell you.

  54. That's awfully kind of you," answered Mugford, brightening up.

  55. It's awfully slow; I almost wish that chap Noaks was back.

  56. But he wanted awfully to go; he thought the world and all of Ferdie.

  57. For good women are awful fools, you know; they are a great deal harder than we are; they think nothing of sending a man to hell; they're awfully intolerant.

  58. I'm awfully sorry," I muttered, appalled by her silence.

  59. I'm awfully glad to see you, don't you know.

  60. Awfully mysterious and all that, don't you know.

  61. I suppose you're awfully anxious to see him.

  62. Those clubs must be awfully rich to tie themselves up for such an amount of money," remarked Mrs. Matson.

  63. It isn't the poor fellow's fault that he's crazy and I'm awfully sorry that I had to hit him at all.

  64. They're awfully anxious to get star players so as to draw the public from the start, and the only way they can get them is to coax them away from the National or the American League.

  65. She's awfully anxious to see your sister, Clara, don't you know.

  66. You're awfully stingy with your information," said Clara, tossing her head.

  67. Well, I must be awfully dense, but really, Nora, I haven't the faintest idea what you are trying to say.

  68. Ah, Miss Wilson, I'm awfully sorry to intrude, but will you be kind enough to hook my waist?

  69. She goes over to CHLOE with the salts] Have a sniff; you look awfully white.

  70. And I said: "I'm awfully sorry, but I thought you might like it.

  71. Dodo, we ought to look for her; I'm awfully afraid.

  72. One thing I'm sure of: she's awfully fond of Chearlie.

  73. I think she's rather a good sort; she was awfully upset.

  74. I'm awfully obliged to you," Varick said as he rose.

  75. It's awfully good of you--" Varick broke off, embarrassed.

  76. Man is mortal," so we yield to the temptation, especially as we are awfully hungry--when is a sailor not so?

  77. I trust these awfully terrible examples were not without their lesson to us.

  78. Yes, they are," said Miss Raleigh thoughtfully, "but they are generally awfully hard to get.

  79. I should think you'd get awfully tired of this same old road," said she.

  80. This strawberry-ice pink is awfully becoming to me, isn't it?

  81. My dearest coz, I'm awfully glad to see you again, and looking so uncommonly well too.

  82. He's awfully fond of you, Dithy; 'pon my word he is.

  83. Do you know I feel awfully old, Edith--twenty-one to-night!

  84. She did not go into society--she had been awfully fond of her late husband, and quite broken-hearted at losing him so soon.

  85. Dead and in her shroud she would never look more awfully death-like than now.

  86. She's awfully clever, and writes for magazines, and papers, and things, and earns oceans of money.

  87. Awfully difficult to put such a thing into words.

  88. Julian looked at Valentine and then added, with a decidedly forced laugh: "You'll be awfully surprised when I tell you what it is, Val.

  89. I say, how awfully pale you look to-night, and thin.

  90. I'm awfully done," she murmured, in her street voice.

  91. They'll be most awfully frightened, you know.

  92. You could play besieged castles awfully well in that maze unless you can do any more magic tricks.

  93. I think you tell adventures awfully well," said the bailiff cautiously.

  94. I'm awfully tired, and it's so long since tea-time.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonizingly; atrociously; awful; awfully; badly; big; bitterly; blatantly; cruelly; damned; deadly; deathly; distressingly; dreadful; dreadfully; exceedingly; excessively; excruciatingly; extravagantly; flagrantly; frightfully; grievously; grossly; hideously; horribly; horridly; improperly; inexcusably; infamously; inordinately; intolerably; just; mightily; mighty; miserably; monstrous; mysteriously; openly; outrageously; painfully; pesky; powerfully; pretty; quite; real; really; remarkably; right; sadly; severely; snapping; sorely; spanking; terribly; terrifically; too; tremendously; unduly; very; whopping


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully fond; awfully glad; awfully good; awfully hard; awfully kind; awfully nice; awfully sorry