How to Use an awful lot in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the meantime, there’s an awful lot of football to watch.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Yes, but: Reserving 80% of the new supply for the team is an awful lot.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 19 Jan. 2025
• 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
• At the time, $13 billion seemed like an awful lot of money to spend on a tiny business.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024
• And that's why the House product is taking on an awful lot of water in the Senate.
  — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 6 June 2025
• 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
• The results will show young women who look an awful lot like circus clowns, with faces hidden under layers of masks, gels, serums, and even face tape.
  — Jana Pollack, Parents, 31 Jan. 2026
• Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
• There's an awful lot of people that lost their jobs in the last 12 months.
  — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
• 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
• But good for you to at least noticing and caring about it — as an awful lot of people don’t and then pay the price later down the line with their health.
  — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 16 Nov. 2025