How to Use awful in a Sentence

awful

adjective

• They heard the most awful sounds.
• That's an awful thing to say.
• The mountains have an awful majesty.
• That joke is just awful.
• Who painted the house that awful color?
• He has some awful disease.
• Awful things began to happen.
• And all the awful stuff stays on that to the other side.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
• The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• And the world, while scary and sometimes awful, is still here.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Gophers’ awful shooting in the first half put them down 10 points at the break.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• The razor burns are awful and the little knicks and cuts are painful.
  — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2023
• The thump of a bird hitting a window is an awful sound.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024
• When Mahomes took a seat on the bench, the body language was awful.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The first decision was to call me up and wake me up and tell me this awful news.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
• But Boeing’s awful start to 2024 is about much more than its stock price.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• Though, of course, from an audience point of view, that’d be awful if no one were the main host.
  — Vulture, 19 July 2023
• And the pursuit of trying to win somebody over is so awful.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• Both sides did awful things, which is what happens in wars.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• In the case of these awful AI images, Microsoft appears to lay much of the blame on the users who make them.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• But something awful’s brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• The whole production may be tacky, but the plot line is simply awful.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Because losing would have been awful, for her and for the country.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
• For many, the shock of the Kamloops news wasn't the discovery so much as the sense of awful validation.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• Fraley, who’s in the middle of an awful slump, got a good bounce off the bat and snuck a seeing-eye single to left field.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2023
• So, there is some hope that once whole, the Blazers could at least turn around the defense, which has been awful the past few weeks.
  — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
• The night gets worse when Steven hears the awful diss album Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Milo made about him.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
• The list of awful and dangerous things Musk has said, or encouraged, goes on and on and on...
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
• The First Amendment gives everyone leeway to say many crazy, awful, violent things but not to do most of them.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
• There are plenty of reasons to savor the original movie, most of them having to do with the casting, some of it campy and awful in a truly wonderful way, some just plain spectacular.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024