Awful Sentence Examples

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  • You must feel awful about it.

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  • It was an awful combination.

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  • Are you going to tell everyone...those awful stories about my great-aunt?

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  • If I had a horse like you I wouldn't drag him out in this awful desert.

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  • Smells awful, but it works.

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  • Martha looked awful but apologized for her actions.

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  • We don't wish to be eaten by such awful beasts.

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  • I had an awful crush on him when we were in high school.

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  • She shook her head, once again amazed at how awful pain was.

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  • The ones he had run into over the years smelled awful, like a wet dog.

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  • I'd hate to think we spent that awful morning with no results.

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  • It's just … god, it's so awful, Kiera.

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  • Death is awful... and he burst into tears.

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  • I knew, too, it was immense! awful! and for a moment some of the sunshine seemed to have gone out of the day.

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  • I sure hate to think of something awful happening to you because of your curiosity.

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  • Andre ran hard for a creature that was already dead.  Katie chased him, terrified of looking back when the awful sounds seemed so close.  Only when the ground stopped trembling did Andre stop.

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  • It's awful with those sausage eaters!

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  • You're not drinking those awful manhattans are you?

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  • I know something awful happened to Damian.

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  • The wi-fi service in this part of town is just awful.

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  • She gasped, not expecting Kris.s traitorous lieutenant but knowing his presence was an awful omen.

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  • I was so looking forward to a nice bath to wash away the stink of that awful hole.

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  • I hope the Boston sisters find some use for these awful things.

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  • It may feel awful now, but it does get easier.

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  • Katie wondered what had called him away—news of the demons in the forest or some other awful plan by Kris?

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  • There is a spring in my step and a note on my lips, until I realize the awful truth of my situation and am forced to hold back my tears.

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  • Her first day was awful.

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  • Mamma, it is awful, it is unbearable!

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  • I, uh, did something really awful Saturday night, and the whole world has gone insane.

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  • That's awful, Connor would never do that.

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  • I heard the Immortal underworld is an awful place.  What if Death decides to keep you or Rhyn drops you in Hell forever?

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  • Somehow, her awful plan worked, without her turning over the gem and betraying him.

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  • I know this sounds awful to a lot of people.

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  • The awful pain he suffered made him moan incessantly and piteously, and his moaning sounded terrible in the darkness of the autumn night.

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  • Coupled with the awful taste, all I want to do is wipe this lipstick off- fast!

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  • With that in mind, I grabbed a tissue and wiped my mouth clean, but unfortunately, the awful taste was still there!

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  • It doesn't take long to determine whether or not a scent works with one's chemistry; within just a few minutes it's apparent that something either smells great, decent or awful.

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  • After all, he promised that he'd try and let her rewrite the awful terms of their relationship, if she survived.

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  • Truthfully, it is pretty awful.

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  • She curtseyed as she finished and Sarah moaned, "You guys are awful."

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  • Couldn't destroy this awful place.

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  • It hurts so badly, and I'm bleeding something awful.

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  • His first night without a woman was awful.

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  • He looks awful big.

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  • It's just … god, it's so awful, Kiera.

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  • I hope the Boston sisters find some use for theses awful things.

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  • It's awful to see the abomination of temple worship in this chapter.

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  • Presenter The key reservation elite athletes have about the place is the awful decline in the standard of facilities.

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  • I guess some of your life must have felt truly awful at times.

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  • When he's not doing hilariously awful James Cagney impressions he's being a mad scientist or coming up with the worst of ideas.

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  • They swing from branch to branch And they make an awful din.

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  • You've spent the last four hours among the awful oppressive space filth.

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  • I am now back on my original painkillers for spinal problems and the awful black floaters have disappeared.

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  • The dubbing is bad too and the travelers from the future get some really awful American geezer dubbing them.

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  • Hannah morris and tanya, by god, tis an awful, awful film.

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  • I ran after those awful aliens I threw my boot but then I heard a hoot.

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  • Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, Gas smells awful.

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  • Suddenly there was this awful sag in pitch as the bellows were emptied of their wind, without being replenished.

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  • He was dreadfully seasick for five days. This is an awful thing to contemplate.

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  • With an awful spasm Mr. Carr jerked his congested features into the ghastly semblance of a smile.

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  • This awful abyss is bridged by a rope, and guarded by seal sentinels.

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  • That's awful... and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her.

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  • The memosphere fills up with catchy tunes, and thinkable thoughts and we all think an awful lot.

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  • The youngest daughter of the Osbourne dynasty has taken the time out to have another little whinge about how awful her life is.

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  • Of course it was awful, and she really was wracked with awful pain.

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  • The number one reason why it is essential that people recycle ink cartridges is that there are an awful lot of them floating around out there.

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  • Natural herbs for panic attacks can help calm the awful feelings of racing heart and impending doom associated with panic attacks.

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  • This may sound like an awful lot of work, but in reality the Lauren Hutton makeup takes minutes to apply.

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  • Whenever I get assistance in a department store, I go home with brown eyeliner and light taupe brow color - which I feel is awful on me.

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  • I know that a lot of lipsticks have a taste to them, but this one is really awful!

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  • Even with all these disadvantages in mind, including the awful, sickening fragrance and taste, I leave the lipstick on.

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  • The cough is usually more problematic at this point, and the patient feels awful.

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  • A targeted search will be more efficient, because there is an awful lot of lingerie to be looked at.

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  • God, that sounds awful!

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  • I never knew she existed until a day ago, and I'm only now learning how awful of a person she was.

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  • She felt awful leaving him out of the blue, without saying farewell or thanking him.

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  • At least she looked good and was comfortable, even though she felt awful.

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  • She was an awful foster mom.

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  • The women at the Sanctuary said they pulled him out of the water, and he looks awful.

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  • Lying to her, even about something this insignificant, felt awful.

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  • If she could only shake the awful feeling that he wouldn't return.

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  • It is noteworthy that the poet, like Milton, sees in Satan no mere personification of evil, but the fallen archangel, whose awful guilt could not obliterate all traces of his native majesty.

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  • A Brescian friar relates that a halo of light was seen to flash round his head, and the citizens remembered his awful prophecies when in 1512 their town was put to the sack by Gaston de Foix.

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  • Both sexes dressed with Puritan plainness; husbands and wives quitted their homes for convents; marriage became an awful and scarcely permitted rite; mothers suckled their own babes; and persons of all ranks - nobles, scholars and artists - renounced the world to assume the Dominican robe.

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  • Savonarola listened unmoved to the awful words, and then quietly resumed his interrupted devotions.

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  • How can they have been the " awful mysteries," the " dread and terrible canons," the " mystic teachings," the " ineffable sentences," the " oracles too sacred to be committed to writing " which the homilists of that age pretend them to have been?

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  • Even here (Cairo) the beating for the years taxes is awful.

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  • Idleness, drunkenness, vicious intercourse, sickness, starvation, squalor, cruelty, chains, awful oppression and everywhere culpable neglect - in these words may be summed up the state of the gaols at the time of Howard's visitation.

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  • When the institution of a revolutionary tribunal was proposed, Vergniaud vehemently opposed the project, denouncing the tribunal as a more awful inquisition than that of Venice, and avowing that his party would all die rather than consent to it.

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  • In Aeschylus, the Erinyes are represented as awful, Gorgon-like women, wearing long black robes, with snaky locks, bloodshot eyes and claw-like nails.

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  • One of the things smells just awful, like a dead thing.

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  • It's not about comfort, of course, but it is about an awful lot of fun.

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  • You helped me escape demons through that awful underworld forest.

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  • Whilst pondering on the course he should follow, the marshal received the news of the awful disaster that had overtaken the emperor at Waterloo.

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  • He is a man of God, like Moses and Samuel, a man admitted to a strange and awful intimacy with the Most High, and like them he combines functions which in later times were distributed between prophet and priest.

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  • There was no margin, and when the " precarious exotic " failed an awful famine was the result.

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  • It was in the midst of that awful obscurity that Gustavus met his death - how or where is not absolutely certain; but it would seem that he lost his way in the darkness while leading the Smaland horse to the assistance of his infantry, and was despatched as he lay severely wounded on the ground by a hostile horseman.

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  • Your getting awful good at pulling me out of scrapes.

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  • Katie wondered what had called him away—news of the demons in the forest or some other awful plan by Kris?

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  • I braced myself; something pretty awful was about to happen.

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  • Hated the beginning, hated the ELO songs, hated the frankly awful oral sex joke at the end.

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  • Read all top rated reviews... absolutely awful drivel.

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  • Her situation is not helped by the fact that the script is so damn awful, but she can't act anyway.

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  • You may, no offense, be f**king awful.

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  • By the same mark, the ultra reliable LED digital clocks can look absolutely awful in their plastic boxes.

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  • There were bottles of evil smelling, thick brown sludge, which tasted awful.

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  • Although I've probably made it sound awful it actually isn't.

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  • The weird bits (Easy, Love Is the New Feel Awful, complete with extended saxophone coda) are more experimental.

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  • Looking at the severe pain I caused her and realizing something of the damage caused by deceit and sin was awful.

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  • Above all may we have grace given us to reverence and keep holy the Sabbath day amid so much awful and general desecration.

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  • She, crouched beside him, eyes still dilated with the awful fear of death, looked back, breathless, trembling.

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  • Despite the gnawing pain across his skull, aching ribs, and the awful taste in his mouth, Gus got a hard-on.

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  • Bird later described the series as " particularly horrendous and really badly made, an awful experience.

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  • This is when the competition hots up and there is an awful lot of money to play for, " he added.

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  • I often used to get awful hypos which made me feel very bad.

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  • Helge spent the next decade and a half collecting the impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings that Carl found ' awful, mannered and ghastly ' .

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  • And they have awful immoral indignation if you hate them back, yet they still hate you if you don't.

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  • Awful scenes over his alleged infidelity would be followed by grand romantic gestures once he filled her room with thousands of fresh daisies.

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  • On the one side you have relative mediocre Java based games, struggling with the phone platform and yielding sometimes awful results.

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  • The " blue jay " shoulder hackle was something awful dyed blue.

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  • I felt an awful fear when I looked at him, but thought it was just wedding jitters.

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  • A new identity Without question, British tabloid journalism can be awful.

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  • I get an awful lot of requests to add links to the main site.

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  • On arrival at the scene our volunteers found a poor lurcher in an awful state.

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  • Even he had to admit that they smelled " bloody awful " in such moments of unbridled lust.

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  • The only new British moped available was the NVT and it was awful.

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  • Looks awful in caps, thought, much too overbearing.

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  • But, apart from awful pap, not much music brings me down.

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  • The local polytechnic, which runs its own observatory, had published its picture which was awful.

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  • It seems strange to us that they are not stricken dumb by the new and awful solemnity of their position.

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  • This awful mob action throws a spotlight on issues far broader than a local event in small town America.

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  • And we all know about those that optimize for cost and nutrition but the resulting food tastes awful; I have consumed enough wheatgrass to attest to this.

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  • Her AWFUL is nearly AWFIL.

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  • Sneakers look awful with suits, but there are other youthful, trendy shoes that can be worn.

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  • We gave him a bath in warm water due to his awful smell, and took him to the vet for his free check-up.

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  • A granite tile countertop can look fantastic or awful; the difference is in the details.

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  • There is an awful lot of exploitation of the world's people and resources and I aim to do my bit to reduce that.

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  • This dream is actually quite amusing to think about once you're awake, but it can feel awful and embarrassing while dreaming.

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  • The weapons are just awful to control, but there is a target that locks-on to enemies for a second or two before it disappears (what???) and you have to lock on again.

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  • Do not believe them and do not let them tell you their awful stories.

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  • Granted, a thick, full suit will be more difficult to maneuver in and out of, but it shouldn't be such an awful experience that you dread even putting it on.

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  • Don't be afraid to buy a piece that's awful but has a really great clasp.

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  • It is an awful feeling to pull your jeans on, only for them to feel tighter than usual.

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  • Finally, there are myriad chest machines out there, ranging from awful to awesome.

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  • Io, 13), and also the sentences of awful judgment by which Yahweh rebukes rebellion (Hos.

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  • The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.

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  • Without it life would be impossible, and it is well recognized that death from thirst is more awful than death from hunger.

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  • It was the 20th of June; the heat was intense; and next morning only 23 were taken out alive, among them Holwell, who left an account of the awful sufferings endured in the "Black Hole."

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  • A contemporary account of it says that in spite of Edwards's academic style of preaching, the assembly was " deeply impressed and bowed down, with an awful conviction of their sin and danger.

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  • He had heard a voice asking him whether he would leave his sins and go to heaven, or keep his sins and go to hell; and he had seen an awful countenance frowning on him from the sky.

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  • When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree.

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  • Modern authorities have explained them as the personification of the waves of the sea or of the barren, unproductive coast of Libya; or as the awful darkness of the storm-cloud, which comes from the west and is scattered by the sun-god Perseus.

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  • She bears the aegis, the awful shield of Zeus.

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  • I understand that you don't know our world, and that you have the disadvantage of having been through some truly awful things since being thrown into our world.

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  • Aside from awful weather (which Megan would likely balk at anyway ), I decided that I'd probably get bored.

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  • Gavin and I slowly got the metro then train back to the airport and sat there feeling very tired and awful.

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  • Audio wise; to cop an awful pun, its pretty sound.

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  • Anyway, it was really interesting and life on the islands seems really quiet, but I felt awful.

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  • I turn the sound on... ...and bloody hell, what a bloody awful racket.

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  • What you may think is good music, may be an awful racket to your neighbor.

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  • Even worse was having the numerous stiches removed, the sensation was awful.

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  • I gradually fell unconscious, only to wake up the next morning, still on the hill, feeling awful.

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  • It would take something like violin virtuosity to get his mind off his truly awful predicament.

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  • These figures are given by Llorente, who was secretary of the Holy Office from 1790 to 1792 and had access to the archives; but modern research reduces the list 'of those burnt by Torquemada to 2000, in itself an awful holocaust to the principle of intolerance.

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  • Not without nervous dread - witness the special taboo to which the leader of society is subject - he draws near and strives to constrain, conciliate or cajole the awful forces with which the life of the group is set about.

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  • I think that is the case with polio and smallpox, which means they weren't eliminated because they were easy, but because they were awful.

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  • Some might say, Hunger is awful.

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  • I believe the whole of Moscow will burn, there's an awful glow!

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  • They've put two regiments as outposts, and they're having such a spree there, it's awful!

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  • I felt awful with a queasy stomach now joining with my bad head.

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  • Case in point is Evolution; there 's an awful lot of sparkle in the eyes going on during that.

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  • Awful opening act, that 's all I can remember, singer with a strangled cat voice.

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  • Of a morose and taciturn character he is said to have been drinking heavily the week prior to the awful tragedy.

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  • Significant levels of calcium, magnesium, and zinc are also contained in sunflower seeds, but note that you will have to eat an awful lot of sunflower seeds to reach the calcium levels of a glass of milk.

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  • The most well written vows will sound awful if you stumble over every word.

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  • The final four months of my drinking career were absolutely awful.

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  • Alcoholics fear that life without drinking will be awful, grim, boring, dull, or tedious.

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  • It was a bad version of the Facts of Life, and it was so dreadful, it was awful.

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  • She was so narcissistic and so awful in terms of how manipulative she was, but at the same time, it was so wonderful.

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  • In 2003, Awful Plastic Surgery ranked her as the "world's scariest celebrity."

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  • Online features breaking news stories as they unfold as well as gossip from The Hum, The Awful Truth and Planet Gossip.

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  • Take a look at these comparison photos at Awful Plastic Surgery.

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  • Nothing is worse than waking on Christmas morning and opening a truly awful gift.

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  • It's awful, but it works for a wide category of people, and is nearly always good for a few laughs.

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  • It's awful, but just as books get judged by their covers, many people discount personal ads by photos alone.

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  • For the most part, the couple unconsciously avoids seeing how awful things are now and instead focuses on to how things used to be when the relationship was new and both partners were acting on their best behaviors.

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  • An awful lot of it came down to pleasure, that idea of sharing a good meal with loved ones.

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  • Jack Abbott has done some fairly awful things during his tenure in Genoa City, but his good looks, charm and soulful eyes have caused more than a few hearts to swoon.

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  • The season concludes with Clark piecing together the true reason he is on earth after he has a nightmare that shows him something awful is going to happen to Smallville.

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  • Katie held her breath, awaiting the awful news.

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  • He was still contemplating " at an awful distance " The Decline and Fall, and meantime revolved some other subjects, that seemed more immediately practicable.

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  • If the result was satisfactory, he was admitted, but before partaking of the common meal he was required to swear awful oaths, that he would reverence the deity, do justice to men, hurt no man voluntarily or at the command of another, hate the unjust and assist the just, and that he would render fidelity to all men, but especially to the rulers, seeing that no one rules but of God.

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  • The same tendency led the pious worshippers to avoid His awful name and to substitute Adonai in their scriptures or to use in the Mishna the term " name " (shem) or " heaven."

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  • There is something impressive, awful, in the simplicity and terrible directness of the book of Esther.

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  • I turn the sound on......and bloody hell, what a bloody awful racket.

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  • Do you we really want to see more tantrums and her awful scrawny arms waving about like a maniac?

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  • Despite its glossy sheen there's an awful lot of shit house about.

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  • Likewise, there is an awful lot that's best left unsaid.

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  • An awful girl, she nearly flunked school and she does drugs.

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  • The name may sound awful, but in reality Cheating Planet is just an online cheat site that provides kids with video game codes for various gaming systems.

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  • She should have walked away and given him a chance to think about it, instead of slapping that awful word from his mouth?

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  • This different treatment shows the feeling of the poet - the feeling for which he seeks to evoke our inmost sympathy - to oscillate between the belief that an awful crime brings with it its awful punishment (and it is sickening to observe how the argument by which the Friar persuades Annabella to forsake her evil courses mainly appeals to the physical terrors of retribution), and the notion that there is something fatal, something irresistible, and therefore in a sense self-justified, in so dominant a passion.

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  • In the presence of these awful truths which Ezekiel preached of individual freedom and of impending judgment, the prophet is weighted with a heavy responsibility.

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  • I think that awful man Mr. Shipton told her the truth about Annie.

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  • How awful his life must have been living with that shit Shipton.

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  • I feel awful that Dad had to die because I put my education before his health.

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  • For a moment her heart leapt, fearful their light had died permanently, trapping them in this awful place.

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