How to use awfully in a sentence

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• Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else.From the entry dated
• That TV series has become awfully formulaic in the last couple of seasons.From the entry formulaic
• Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings.From the entry hustings
• Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?From the entry don't
• Space may be the final frontier and it’s starting to get awfully crowded.2016, Phillip Swarts, “Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier”, in Air Force Times. From the entry final frontier
• He just seems awfully grumpy for someone in a steady relationship.2009, Jery Smith-Ready, Wicked Game, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry boyfriendable
• Singer Roberta Duchak is more sensitive rhythmically yet awfully bright and unsupple on the high notes.2005 November 11, Laura Molzahn, “Come Fly With Me”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unsupple
• For a nation that values its children, folks are awfully complacent about saddling their kids with megadebt.1995 December 27, Debra Saunders, “Clinton, not GOP, deserves public's scorn”, in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. From the entry megadebt
• "Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.1932, Aldous Huxley, chapter 6, in Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry pneumatic
• It's most awfully good of you to give me such a splendidiferous present.1927, Harold Begbie, Julius Levine: A Novel, Mills & Boon - The Oxford University Press, page 103. From the entry splendidiferous
• All dressed up, no place to go, Each evening I'm awfully blue.1924 December 1, the musical "Lady, Be Good!," premiered on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre; music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira…. From the entry all dressed up and nowhere to go
• "You are an awfully good sort," he said to her once a propos of nothing at all.1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121. From the entry à propos
• Creel wrote about Governor Johnson is awfully mean, and also untrue.1914 October 10, “A Rebuke from Fresno”, in Theodore F. Bonnet, editor, Town Talk: The Pacific Weekly, volume XXIV, number 1155, San…. From the entry ladilike
• It's awfully stuffy for a chap not to be allowed out in the evenings.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet. From the entry homer
• I'm in the county Offaly and I'm awfully sorry now.2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh. From the entry sceach
• 'I haven't heard about that,' responded Melissa, adding: 'It seems like it'd be an awfully fun thing to do.2019 July 30, Annita Katee, “Melissa McCarthy flashes a wink when asked if she has been cast as Ursula in The Little Mermaid live-action…. From the entry ringy dingy
• The scrambling quarterback is like a beautiful woman -- awfully enticing, but in the end she'll break your heart.2001 Sept. 3, Brian Billick, quoted in "Run or Gun?", ESPN the Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 18. From the entry in the pocket
• You must have awfully low standards of pretentiousnessousnessousnessousness.2000 May 5, A B Magee, “Hey! Anne!”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet). From the entry pretentiosity
• OK, not your lawfully wedded wife, but what was it that witch Radha Sabnis called me –your "awfully bedded wife."1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business, page 187. From the entry bedded
• This kind of thing could seem awfully arch and in-jokey if it weren’t done with such fun-sharing affection.1972 March 26, Giles M. Fowler, “‘Doc’ … In Zany Tribute To Screwball Comedy”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 92, number 191, Kansas…. From the entry in-jokey
• She wrote some awfully slushy letters to Phil Bowen, and he read them aloud at the frat house one night.1922, Willa Cather, chapter 9, in One of Ours. From the entry frat house
• "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It.1917, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Rafters”, in The Young Stagers. From the entry kismet
• Old Smith was awfully bucked because he'd taken four wickets.1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in Mike: A Public School Story. From the entry off one's nut
• 'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 6, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry crestfallen
• 'You are most awfully fetching to-night—you look so jolly mysterious somehow,' he said joyously, putting his cheek against hers.1906, Flora Annie Steel, chapter XXVI, in A Sovereign Remedy, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 318. From the entry wifelet
• "It's awfully brickish of you, Worcester," said Acton, as Grim was heard trotting up the corridor "to stand down."1901, Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud. From the entry brickish
• Jolly stunt! when I first came I was awfully afraid—” Gerald pulled himself up suddenly, and blushed scarlet.1901, Laura E. Richards, “Chapter XV. Jewels: And an Awakening”, in Fernley House, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 199. From the entry acrobatess
• But I couldn't help myself Something struck me as awfully funny that day—the hushed reverence, my starched white dress, I cannot say for sure.2010, Sarah Ferguson, What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way. From the entry church giggles
• 'It is awfully cramped in here.2004, Susan Sallis, The Pumpkin Coach, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry ladder
• But computers and communications are awfully good these days, and it usually doesn't take longer than a couple of seconds to perform a charge-card verification.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182. From the entry beep out
• Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it?1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson). From the entry cocaine
• But the list looked awfully pale.1989, John Grisham, A Time To Kill, Island Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 308. From the entry willie
• A Belgian friend of one of my p. b.f.’s (platonic boy-friends) said you were going to marry M.F. and she was awfully attractive.1929, Nancy Hoyt, Promise Not to Tell, New York, N.Y.: Horace Liveright, →OCLC, page 190. From the entry bf
• “ the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC. From the entry find
• After the show had trouped I met an awfully nice girl-⁠-she was neither blonde nor brune, rather betwixt and between, but a corking looker.1907 June, George V[ere] Hobart, Ikey’s Letters to His Father, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 44. From the entry brune
• There are still a few unknowns, but the survey of who was left standing as the episode drew to a close was an awfully full dance card.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived…. From the entry dance card
• 'But you've been engaged an awfully long time: I had to use ringback in the end and that's expensive, but this is important so never mind.'2013, Mark Roberts, The Sixth Soul. From the entry ringback
• We must look awfully immoral to many in the world, the way we kissy up to money and the "art of the deal" regardless of character.1997 June 30, Van, “CEO wages up 24%. Worker wages go south.”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026. From the entry kissy up

Meaning of awfully

1. adverb Badly, terribly.
2. adverb Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively.
3. adverb In a manner inspiring awe.

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Questions about awfully in a sentence

How do you use awfully in a sentence?

Awfully is used as an adverb. For example: “She led after the swimming and cycling, but ran awfully and came in fourth.”

What is a short sentence with awfully?

“'It is awfully cramped in here.”

What does awfully mean?

Awfully means badly, terribly.