Sentence examples for awfully familiar with from inspiring English sources

The phrase "awfully familiar with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong level of familiarity or knowledge about a subject, often with a slightly negative or sarcastic connotation.
Example: "After years of working in the industry, I am awfully familiar with the challenges we face."
Alternatives: "very familiar with" or "quite knowledgeable about".

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When the Los Angeles Dodgers set the National League record for home victories to start the season Monday night, they passed a team their manager, Joe Torre, was awfully familiar with: the 1983 Atlanta Braves, whose manager was Torre.

"When I first read this poem, as an undergraduate at Rutgers University," Kendall said, "I had never heard of Stieglitz … but I'd lived in New Jersey for several years and I was awfully familiar with the tunnels and bridges that connected the unglamorous state with the glittering city beyond...

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They are a type that sounds awfully familiar: Obama-supporting, kitchen-renovating professionals with graduate degrees, who, unable to rest comfortably in the knowledge that they have passed economically dispositive high I.Q.s on to their children at conception, obsess relentlessly over education.

As many noted when Apple released its beta version of iOS earlier this week, one of the mobile operating system's newest features, a nighttime reading mode with reduced blue light emissions, looked awfully familiar.

As many noted when Apple released its beta version of iOS earlier this week, one of the mobile operating system's newest features, a nighttime reading mode with reduced blue light emissions, looked awfully familiar.

Its rear-end is buttery soft thanks to its glass-weave construction, and the end result is a carbon fiber-esque pattern that looks awfully familiar to the sort of things Motorola has been doing with its recent smartphones.

Having woken up at 3.30 in the morning with crippling pains in my back which felt awfully familiar to the kidney stones I had 12 years ago, I woke up my wife and got her to drive me to St George's.

But his story, about arrested development and second chances, is awfully familiar and surprisingly sentimental, and a plot strand about an Iraq veteran with post-traumatic stress feels particularly contrived.

David Simon's Homicide may be getting on a bit, but to lovers of his TV series The Wire, his 1988 book about a year spent with the Baltimore police department's murder investigators will feel awfully familiar.

It sounded awfully familiar.

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