Sentence examples for awful meaning from inspiring English sources

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Try to imagine the awful meaning of this".

Then she explains the awful meaning of the "time limit" that pounds and shelters impose.

"And now for the first time he became conscious of the terrible mystery of Destiny, of the awful meaning of Doom".

Try to imagine the awful meaning of this". As the book tumbles towards its conclusion, with still so many life-changing writers unquoted and profound contemplations unarticulated, Potter's footnotes become longer, as if anxious that something might be left out.

It's a figure of speech to talk about losing one's mind, but the idea takes on new and awful meaning when it actually happens -- when language and concepts and sense of where and who you are begin to deteriorate and you slowly lose the faculties you've always taken for granted.

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The words "Halloween horror", also on the front page, had taken on an awful new meaning by the time the editor, Helena Lang, was forced to respond.

Use words such as "awful" when meaning "a lot.

"I Don't Know How She Does It" is adapted from Allison Pearson's 2002 novel about a woman who "has it all" (to use that awful 1980s cliché), meaning success in business and a happy family.

Because we know that politicians, military people and corporate moguls are capable of doing awful things -- meaning dystopian novels feel kind of honest.

Liberal is about as likely to regain its original meaning as awful is.

When she tells her husband about it, he says, "That must have been awful for her" -- meaning the dental assistant.

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