How to Use an awful lot in a Sentence

an awful lot

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• 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
• There's an awful lot of people that lost their jobs in the last 12 months.
  — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
• The last four years, the Rangers spent an awful lot of time on the second step.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• But the Mets have been doing an awful lot of hat tipping as of late.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
• 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
• Three thousand years, to be honest, means an awful lot of longing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• Stephen had saved an awful lot of people’s lives [as a safety diver].
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 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
• Roof will have to do an awful lot to make a case for itself in a market as fierce as helmets.
  — New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• That is the area that can trip up an awful lot of organizations.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2024
• Losing to a team like the Browns says an awful lot about Green Bay.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025
• The slow, relaxed pace feels an awful lot like a vacation to the south of France.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Springfield’s decline looks like an awful lot of Rust Belt cities and towns.
  — Peter Certo, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
• At the time, $13 billion seemed like an awful lot of money to spend on a tiny business.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024
• Medicine has improved an awful lot, but with children, there’s a sense that your heart is living outside your body.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
• 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
• That’s an awful lot of athleticism the Padres spread around the field on a daily basis.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• That's an awful lot of games that have to break a certain way for chaos to reign in the SEC.
  — Chase Goodbread, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
• That’s what the checklist calls for, at least, but there are an awful lot of steps that have to go just-so for the mission to work as planned.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• Thus far in 2025, there are an awful lot of reasons for optimism.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
• But an awful lot of these other voices out there are capitalizing on anger.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
• And that's why the House product is taking on an awful lot of water in the Senate.
  — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 6 June 2025
• Planting marigolds on the perimeter of your garden beds adds some level of protection, but not an awful lot.
  — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 6 Feb. 2026
• Planting marigolds on the perimeter of your garden beds adds some level of protection, but not an awful lot.
  — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 6 July 2026