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How to use the word terribly in a Sentence? Page #7

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She often is very good at letting the prosecutor and the victims know why settling is in their interest, and you saw that in Loughner, she and her team ... were constantly meeting with Loughner and getting experts until the prosecution understood that he was terribly, terribly mentally ill and it was in everyone's best interests for him to take a plea.

Jon Sands

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I am disappointed to make bogey on the last, but... you're always happy when you're under par - and the more under par you are, the happier you are, i have the flu, and I'm very bunged up and slept terribly last night, but apart from that I'm fine.

Thailand Miguel Jimenez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And so artists who go to that edge and push outwards often find very powerful forces pushing back. They find the forces of silence opposing the forces of speech. The forces of censorship against the forces of utterance, at that boundary is that push-and-pull between more and less. And that push and pull can be very dangerous to the artist. And many artists have suffered terribly for that.

Salman Rushdie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There’s not a day that goes by that I don't think about your son, i'm terribly sorry.

Dante Martin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was very cold, terribly cold. Nearby ships sprayed water from their hydrants (to fight the fire) and we were completely wet.

Dimitra Theodossiou

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Forty years ago, I did something terribly wrong that I deeply regret, i have been working to atone for it ever since. I've decided to address these issues publicly because two months ago, various news organizations published a recording made by my then-wife, Faye Grant, during a confidential marriage therapy session in January, 2012. This session was recorded without the therapist's or my knowledge or consent.

Stephen Collins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I wasn't terribly surprised. It wasn't unusual at that time for Jewish families to disappear. I thought, 'Maybe they got away,'

Matthew J. Perry

added by anonymous
9 years ago

‘Once, I spent the night in the secret annexe. To tell the truth, I was terribly scared. When I heard a branch creaking or an automobile riding along the canal I became frightened. I was grateful when the morning arrived and I could return to working. It’s only now that I understand what the Frank family went through, and they tension they must have had to live under.’

Bep Voskuijl

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly.

Arisa Hosaka

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10 years ago

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

George Steiner

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10 years ago

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

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10 years ago

I saw Anne and her sister Margot again in the barracks. Her parents weren't there. The Frank girls were almost unrecognizable since their hair had been cut off. They were much balder then we were; how that could be I don't know. And they were cold, just like the rest of us. (...) The Frank girls were so emaciated. They looked terrible. They had their little squabbles, caused by their illness, because it was clear that they had typhus. You could tell even if you had never had anything to do with that before. Typhus was the hallmark of Bergen-Belsen. They had those hollowed-out faces, skin over bone. They were terribly cold. They had the least desirable places in the barracks, below, near the door, which was constantly opened and closed. You heard them constantly screaming, "Close the door, close the door," and the voices became weaker every day. You could really see both of them dying, as well as others.

Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder

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10 years ago

I am terribly sad that I have not yet been able to see your daughters and get to know them; but what can I do! It means it's not my fate, and everything is the will of God.

Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

Anonymous

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13 years ago

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

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13 years ago

Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.

Dave Storer

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14 years ago

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

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14 years ago

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.

Sherwood Anderson

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14 years ago

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

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14 years ago

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

A. M. Rosenthal

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14 years ago

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