"awful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

awful adjetivo

awful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 128
awful lot • awful thing • awful truth • awful moment • awful time • awful place • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(2) thing, fear, dread, horror
Kolokacji: 4
(5) day, chance, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(10) mess, sight, carnage
Kolokacji: 3
(15) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(16) mistake, crime, spectacle
Kolokacji: 3
1. awful mistake = okropny błąd awful mistake
2. awful crime = straszne przestępstwo awful crime
3. awful spectacle = okropne widowisko awful spectacle
  • And really, you are making an awful spectacle of yourself, going on like that.
  • A reporter who witnessed it also said it was "an awful spectacle, far worse than hanging."
  • That wretched green cap and those awful spectacles.
  • She was honest enough to admit yesterday that in general terms, the tennis was an embarrassment and an awful spectacle for the 74 people watching.
  • He was an awful spectacle, mere bone with yellow skin stretched over it, and covered with filth and clotted blood from some hurt.
  • And what was revealed by this awful spectacle?
  • It is an awful spectacle to see a ride galloping through the finish with reins flapping, bouncing around on the horse's back.
  • The procedure had to be repeated and a reporter on hand described it as "an awful spectacle, far worse than hanging."
  • He lowered his arms, and for two or three seconds stood in silence, submitting to the awful spectacle he had made.
  • A reporter who witnessed the execution wrote that it was "an awful spectacle, far worse than hanging."
(18) scream, joke, pun, fool, irony
Kolokacji: 5
(19) taste, fascination, loneliness
Kolokacji: 3
(22) hurry, disease
Kolokacji: 2
(23) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(24) cold, heat, coldness
Kolokacji: 3
(25) possibility, choice
Kolokacji: 2
(26) management, name
Kolokacji: 2
(27) oath, curse
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + awful
Kolokacji: 5
look awful • feel awful • sound awful • smell awful • taste awful
adverbio + awful
Kolokacji: 10
most awful • truly awful • pretty awful • absolutely awful • perfectly awful • ...
awful + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
awful in • awful for • awful at • awful to • awful about

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