TERRIBLY in a Sentence
Learn TERRIBLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
264 example sentences for TERRIBLY, such as:
1. I'm not terribly interested in politics.
2. His painting/style is terribly derivative.
3. He was terribly tiresome with the servants.
4. To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing.
5. She's got a terribly guilty conscience about it.
2. His painting/style is terribly derivative.
3. He was terribly tiresome with the servants.
4. To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing.
5. She's got a terribly guilty conscience about it.
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Meanings and Examples of TERRIBLY
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terribly
ad. used as intensifiers
ad. in a terrible manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2 Anyhow everything was terribly silly, and she was exasperatedly bored by it all, by Clifford, by Aunt Eva, by Olive and Jack, and Winterslow, and even by Dukes.
3 But the fourth day she was terribly unsettled and uneasy.
4 She felt the front of his body terribly near to her, and alive.
5 When she came to the clearing she was terribly uneasy.
6 He was terribly tiresome with the servants.
7 His mother told me about it, she's terribly upset.
8 I found my father expiring upon the ground, with his head terribly injured.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9 The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10 This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11 The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
12 She had been terribly excited immediately after his disappearance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
13 He was deadly pale and terribly emaciated, with the protruding, brilliant eyes of a man whose spirit was greater than his strength.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
14 He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
15 His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1 She's got a terribly guilty conscience about it.
2 The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
3 The form was terribly complicated and I had a lot of trouble with it.
4 Some people are so terribly insincere you can never tell if they are telling the truth.
5 No wonder the firm makes a loss; the office is terribly overstaffed.
6 Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
7 My son's terribly untidy; my daughter's no different.
8 Tomato sauce stains terribly - it's really difficult to get it out of clothes.
9 To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing.
10 I'm not terribly interested in politics.
11 His painting/style is terribly derivative.
12 She was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
13 He was as a dog that had been terribly scorched, and nothing would again induce him to go near the fire.
14 She was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that her baby might be hungry.
15 Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.