Sentence examples for awfully dead from inspiring English sources
Poor Tuppence sits forlorn on the stairs, hoping Tommy isn't quite awfully dead when Uncle Julius arrives with breakfast.
He had one shoe on and looked awfully close to dead.
"But one positive that did strike me, I'm getting all this love and admiration now, rather than people standing around talking about me awfully well when I'm dead, at the wake or that sort of thing.
For a dead man Woody Guthrie has been awfully busy lately.
Pyle writes, "Then a soldier came and stood beside the officer, and bent over, and he too spoke to his dead captain, not in a whisper but awfully tenderly, and he said: 'I sure am sorry, sir.'" (That kills me).
It seems an awfully cavalier way to talk about the American battle dead buried at Arlington and in cemeteries across the country.
The grim news of two hundred and twenty-four dead countrymen could make a distant war seem awfully close — not only leading to questions about the virtue of Russian policy but also requiring Putin do something in response.
"It's an awfully strong opinion," says Rick Bress, a lawyer for the House, "they got it dead on".
