Sentence examples for awful combination from inspiring English sources

That sounded like an awful combination for the Yankees and an encouraging combination for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

"It's an awful combination, because many parents expect restraints to be used — as long as it's not their kid".

But it has helped sailors to deal with naval warfare's awful combination of tedium and danger.The army has done a fine job of training more generally.

Speaking while still a Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, he laid into the Treasury's negotiators saying: "They've got an awful combination of arrogance and incompetence, most of them couldn't negotiate themselves out of a paper bag".

Writers Tony MacMurray and Adam Buxton have clearly done their time in the lower depths of the music business; there was a horrible veracity about the gigs in dreary provincial pubs, the awful combination of ambition and ineptitude that clings to indie rock like the smell of cheap fags.

Afraid and powerless is an awful combination, especially when it seems other people, mainly the rich and famous, have all the power.

The idea that food stamps represent a problem — not a small blessing that has made this ongoing economic disaster marginally less awful — represents an awesome combination of ignorance and cruelty.

There's nothing in the world that works fantastically well and looks awful, that combination doesn't exist.

I refer to that point as The Danger Zone, because that's when you're either going to experiment with a shimmer eye shadow (terrible idea), an orange lipstick and gloss combination (awful) or, god forbid, an up-do.

My soil is awful, an unfecund combination of sand, rocks and roots, the ungenerous leavings of Long Island's glacially bulldozed moraine.

But given the right combination of awful circumstances, you can discover surprising things about yourself.