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How to use awfully in a sentence

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Even for a fast learner, though, four months is an awfully short time to cram.
Either I grew up in a parallel universe, or things have gone awfully soft in the two decades since I graduated.
There's a blind exit onto Bridge Street at the bottom of the hill and it is awfully dangerous trying to get out there.
The path to justice for families or victims of those who suffer a medical goof-up, he believes, is awfully steep.
The rest is a bunch of Italian sexploit nonsense that takes itself awfully seriously.
And some of that underwear's awfully complicated with all the hooks and eyes.
My trainer Tim Etherington, awfully nice chap, has whispered in my shell-like that I am entered in not just one, but two meetings next week.
This is an awfully funny story if you are not cowed by the scholarly references.
But it's awfully depressing to see how quickly we can indulge the urge to trim the Faith to suit our political tribe.
Amy could see that she was awfully pretty with long reddy chestnut hair, which fell behind her back and deep emerald green eyes.
If we had to limit our interviews to everybody who was doing good and contributing to society, I'm afraid that might be an awfully short list.
The idea seemed interesting, but the signal-to-noise ratio was awfully low.
As soon as he viewed a window detailing the current workings of the sound detecting code, he realised something was awfully wrong.
He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative.
Parson wondered if Ryder would get mad if he gave her some food, she looked awfully skinny.
And apart from faint background muzak, it is awfully quiet, for the other diners don't say much to each other.
She lays on the hayseed vernacular awfully thick, both in her dialogue and her narration.
That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant.
It looks awfully like standing at the gate, staring out into the paddock, wondering where the prize stallion has gone.
The one way system was very successful in that it regularised the junctions because they were awfully dangerous and it got rid of that danger.
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He went around, and approached from up-stream, awfully careful not to make any noise or raise any settlings.
It is awfully nice of you to ask me to the boat race and I accept with pleasure.
Since one of the nurses said he could be arrested for my nonsupport, I've been awfully close-mouthed.
It must be awfully trying, though, not to be able to babble when you're pleased.
Mother says I mispronounce awfully, and it's because I read so much to myself.
That ship you talked of is awfully plated up topside, but all her underpinnings are pretty weak.
Do you think it would be awfully immoral if I rouged her cheeks a suspicion?
She's a little older than Miss jacinth, and oh, Phebe, she's so awfully deaf.
And, Peter, it was awfully nice of you to wait about reading these letters.
It rained as if the flood-gates of heaven were opened, and it lightened awfully.
He has read that thing you wrote about the German sea hog, and he thinks it's awfully well done.
You are getting an awfully great fellow, Belton, to calm him down like that.
I've been awfully lucky, and all because that fellow Cathcart turned out such a funk and a bounder.
But he was awfully fond of reading aloud in the evenings, in a slow, even, sing-song voice, as though over the dead.
Unless you can ski very well, a jump like that's awfully dangerous.
Touchingly and awfully drawn together, he and the little mad woman were side by side and, as it were, alone.
Perhaps they'd put you on to tabulation work, though that's awfully dull.
That is, I declare, Mr. Monday, it looks awfully like tempting Providence!
But it rather confirms my view that such pleasure places look awfully lonely out of season, or the man wouldn't have been murdered there.
I was awfully pleased when told that my namesake, Mary Magdalene, was the first person to see the resurrected Jesus.
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