Sentence examples for awfully true from inspiring English sources

'awfully true' is a correct phrase to use in written English.
It means 'very true' and it is usually used to emphasize the truthfulness of a statement. For example, "It is awfully true that practice makes perfect!".

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Which feels awfully true.

It's an appropriately foreboding image for a heavily plotted tale of demons and men, God and the Devil that, in his influential review of the novel, Coleridge excoriated for combining "all that is most awfully true in religion with all that is most ridiculously absurd in superstition".

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The artist lists the work's date of creation as "1990-Now," which, if true, is awfully prophetic (Pitt and Jolie are said to have fallen in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a film shot in 2004).

For a docudrama about a high-profile crime, True Story is awfully scant on forensic evidence – we never hear about a shred of it.

If it's true, the rent seems awfully low.

That vision may be true, but it seems awfully, well, un-fun.

I don't know if it's true, but it sounded awfully good.

Even if it was true, death is an awfully high price to pay for a few dollars worth of gold.

While that may technically be true, it's an awfully fine splitting of hairs since we distinctly remember writing this story about a Vans tie-in with "The Simpsons Movie" back in 2007.

From the point of view of the white male right, that might look awfully like the liberal Jewish dream come true.

Which would be lovely, but I suspect we have an awfully long way to go before her wish comes true.

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