How to Use an awful lot in a Sentence

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• The last four years, the Rangers spent an awful lot of time on the second step.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• That’s a hell of a thing … There’s an awful lot of pressure on (her) to have to score.
  — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• All right, so that’s an awful lot of worst habits right there, huh?
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• There was an awful lot of people that had been to these camps.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
• That would cut down their standing time at the shelf an awful lot.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
• On that score, an awful lot of us are failing right now.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the Mets have been doing an awful lot of hat tipping as of late.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
• The slow, relaxed pace feels an awful lot like a vacation to the south of France.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• There's an awful lot to like about the second-gen Apple Watch SE.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2023
• On paper, that sounds an awful lot like the Apple Watch.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
• So that's an awful lot to have done in what is, by definition, the worst year of my life.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• So somewhere, at some point, somebody has to look at the leader and go, ‘Gosh, there’s an awful lot of smoke.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 May 2024
• But in truth there’s still an awful lot to do in terms of equality, which is a huge concern for me.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
• Randle is in the Top 10 in All-Star voting for forwards, and there is an awful lot of talent ahead of him.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2024
• There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• However, there’s not an awful lot going on in the mids here.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• While an awful lot can happen between now and the end of the season, here’s how things look for the conference team by team.
  — Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022
• Stephen had saved an awful lot of people’s lives [as a safety diver].
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• There was an awful lot to be proud of in Harrison’s first start of his sophomore season.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Three thousand years, to be honest, means an awful lot of longing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• The narrator of the audiotape sounded an awful lot like the narrator of the video.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• On the other hand, there’s an awful lot of publicity around this case.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• Well, the code of conduct would look an awful lot like the code that applies to the rest of federal government and other judges.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Well, the code of conduct would look an awful lot like the code that applies to the rest of federal government and other judges.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• But that would take standing up to the Big Pharma lobbyists who cut an awful lot of campaign checks.
  — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2024
• And with the recent trend toward remote working, that’s an awful lot of home brewing.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
• As well as playing an awful lot of golf, the experience has changed Koenig’s perspective on the world.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
• Smart speakers can do an awful lot, from control your home to answer quick queries or send messages.
  — Mark Prigg, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2023
• The three ladies dance as a vibey track plays out, featuring two voices that sound an awful lot like Jennie Kim and Abel Tesfaye’s.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 May 2023
• That means an awful lot of unaccounted for dead humans.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024