How to Use an awful lot in a Sentence

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• At the time, $13 billion seemed like an awful lot of money to spend on a tiny business.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024
• There have been an awful lot of Chinese self-driving car companies making moves to go public lately, haven’t there?
  — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
• That’s an awful lot more than a standard Zoom call, although the company does offer a full-size model on a lease for $2,500 a month.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
• The goal is dark, cozy, and nature inspired (Elena, Stefan, and Damon do spend an awful lot of time in the forest, after all).
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2024
• The last four years, the Rangers spent an awful lot of time on the second step.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• That’s a hell of a thing … There’s an awful lot of pressure on (her) to have to score.
  — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• All right, so that’s an awful lot of worst habits right there, huh?
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• There was an awful lot of people that had been to these camps.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
• That would cut down their standing time at the shelf an awful lot.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
• On that score, an awful lot of us are failing right now.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the Mets have been doing an awful lot of hat tipping as of late.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
• The slow, relaxed pace feels an awful lot like a vacation to the south of France.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• In short, the world has an awful lot of cattle, which translates to a lot of emissions.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2024
• There's an awful lot to like about the second-gen Apple Watch SE.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2023
• On paper, that sounds an awful lot like the Apple Watch.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
• So that's an awful lot to have done in what is, by definition, the worst year of my life.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• That’s an awful lot of athleticism the Padres spread around the field on a daily basis.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Springfield’s decline looks like an awful lot of Rust Belt cities and towns.
  — Peter Certo, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
• So somewhere, at some point, somebody has to look at the leader and go, ‘Gosh, there’s an awful lot of smoke.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 May 2024
• But in truth there’s still an awful lot to do in terms of equality, which is a huge concern for me.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
• Randle is in the Top 10 in All-Star voting for forwards, and there is an awful lot of talent ahead of him.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2024
• There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• However, there’s not an awful lot going on in the mids here.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• While an awful lot can happen between now and the end of the season, here’s how things look for the conference team by team.
  — Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022
• Getty Images The seductive lure of cars that drive themselves has led to an awful lot of hype over the past decade.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
• Stephen had saved an awful lot of people’s lives [as a safety diver].
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• There was an awful lot to be proud of in Harrison’s first start of his sophomore season.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Three thousand years, to be honest, means an awful lot of longing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• That is the area that can trip up an awful lot of organizations.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2024
• The narrator of the audiotape sounded an awful lot like the narrator of the video.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024