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How to use the word Awful in a Sentence? Page #3

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First of all, he’s probably one of the brightest coaches that I’ve spoken to. When you talk to people, the first thing they ’ll say about Mike is he is innovative, he is thinking outside the box. I had coaches in his former division calling me and telling me how great he was and I said, why are you calling ? And they said, ‘ Really, to get him out of the division. ’ It says an awful lot about a person and who he is.

Stephen Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We found that there was a resurgence of private-label product, and that was driven an awful lot by the fact that the prices of brand-name products were growing so rapidly.

Jim Sinegal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill.

David Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The circumstances around my parents’ sudden passings have become fodder for press, and there are some misconceptions rolling around - understandably so, this is very delicate for me to write because i’m wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly. there’s an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life - that privacy has been stripped away in death.

Alicia Witt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those are the points I have been making for an awful long time, we need changes to make the Senate work better. Not (by) getting rid of the filibuster.

Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Where Section 230 really makes a difference is in things like defamation lawsuits, but that's not really what's driving the debate around Facebook and other social media sites — it's more of this lawful but awful types of content.

Jeff Kosseff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And I knew how much she loved him. She talked about him all the time. What Allen Ludden had was special, and she always remembered that. I wish I knew what Allen Ludden secret was. I would be Joyce Bulifant. But you know, I was also lucky to be married to the love of my life. And I think she felt the same way. She was lucky and she knew it. Because not everyone has that. i felt awful because I had moved to Colorado and lost track for a while.

Joyce Bulifant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I felt awful because I had moved to Colorado and lost track for a while, and then when I came to Los Angeles for a visit, I wanted to see Joyce Bulifant. I called and the lady who took care of making arrangements for Joyce Bulifant answered. I told her I wanted to see her, and she said, ‘ Oh yes, Betty would love that. She would love to see you. I ’ll get back to you. Please call me again on this day so we can schedule it and make it happen. ’ I wrote down the number she gave me and I lost that slip of paper. And then my husband had been diagnosed with cancer. So I was certainly not in a good frame of mind to keep anything together.

Betty White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm generally pro-union, but this walkout was clumsy, it was spiteful. It was absolutely devastating for these children's well-being. Where are they going to eat, some of these families now? I think it's absolutely awful. This is … absolutely cruel what they have done to these children.

Geraldo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just felt so bad because we were doing this show, and she would come and rehearse and then leave and go to the hospital, she had to be suffering something awful, because they loved each other so much, but she didn't let it hinder coming to rehearsals or during the performance. And she was brilliant as always.

Carol Burnett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We didn’t see delta coming. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see delta coming, we didn’t see omicron coming. And that’s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They had, literally, taken the conversation I had for two hours and made it seem as if I was saying the exact opposite of what I said, i had gone on and said, like, how much we respect each other and cared about each other and cared about our kids and put them first and went through our stuff. And they said I had blamed my ex wife for my alcoholism and that I was' trapped' and just made me out to be the worst, most insensitive, stupid awful guy.

Ben Affleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can't get any help. And that's honestly the bottom line of the biggest problems here is that we just don't have the staffing, and the personnel resources in particular, and that's really led to an awful lot of burnout... but just the continuing emotional grind, in addition to the physical fatigue of caring for these patients and adapting to the challenges of working in PPE, and being the only connection sometimes between patient and family, has been terribly difficult.

John Hick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Early childhood is so important, the die is cast for a lot of Americans before they’re 5 years-old, and I hate to say that — it's not like there aren’t examples of 17-year-olds who had really, really rough childhoods and ultimately succeeded — but the reality is, for an awful lot of Americans, the die is cast, even before you’re 5 years old.

Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Q-Anon and the extreme elements of the Republican Party and what, Donald Trump keeps sort of, seems to me feeding the, you know what, the big lie, it makes it awful hard, for example, one of the reasons I'm a little bit late coming on is because -- not coming on, but to do the taping here, is because I did Bob Dole's eulogy today.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was 12, and I would look at her and think,' Why don't I look like that ?' i was covered with pimples. My hair, it was awful. ... It never resonated that she was a grown woman. I posted pictures of Gabriella Bermudez to make Gabriella Bermudez look a lot older than I was.

Gabriella Bermudez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’d be an awful shame if those people were returned to prison, those patients have been proven not to need a prison setting given their medical conditions.

Steve Fama

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was very polite to Daniel, i think Daniel said the hardest thing that he’s realizing is, that guy had just killed however many people and he was so polite, and kind of calm. Then, when he started getting uncomfortable he told him to leave…[Brooks] complied, but it was just crazy. I’m glad everyone’s OK, at least in our house, it’s awful what happened to everybody else.

Katrina Reigh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We didn’t win the game, but I’m awful proud of the way our guys came in here and battled, we just played one of the better teams in the country. And we were right there.

Western Kentucky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s pretty awful, and I can not believe this is still happening in the world — that people are doing this.

Jessie James Decker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If there is a weapon of any sort, not just guns, in somebody's hands when we respond in a situation like an active shooter or an assault in progress... officers have additional pressures placed upon( them) to evaluate an awful lot of info in a short period of time and hopefully arrive at the correct answer to mitigate danger to everyone involved, now as a responding officer, I have to very quickly, and when I say quickly : seconds, milliseconds ; make a determination in my mind, is this a friend or foe type of thing.

Thor Eells

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital.

Joanne Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Hilaria Baldwin needs space for me to take care of Hilaria Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin mental health, it's an awful thing that happened. Alec feels awful.

New Mexico.His wife

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just don't understand why it didn't happen, it was awful.

John Daniell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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