How to Use an awful lot in a Sentence

an awful lot

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• Eight times a week is an awful lot.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• That’s an awful lot to go through, so let’s get started.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
• But Watson sure changed an awful lot.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
• 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
• All of this may seem like an awful lot of effort to catch one musical act.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
• But the Mets have been doing an awful lot of hat tipping as of late.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
• And his lack of action Sunday said an awful lot.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
• Because there are an awful lot of people trampling on it.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
• 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
• That’s an awful lot of agents to test before deployment.
  — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Which, especially at night, is not an awful lot.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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
• And now Victorious sounds an awful lot like her first name.
  — Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
• 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
• That leaves an awful lot resting on Powell’s shoulders.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
• William, isn't seen an awful lot and is exceptionally dull.
  — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025