terribly

Example Sentences

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"Terribly excited. My dad is 90 and my dad was on duty of the coronation when Queen Elizabeth went down to be crowned."

From BBC • May 5, 2023

“The story just kind of stopped, you know? Terribly tragic, definitely. None of us expected it. Everybody that knows him was like ‘He was doing so good.

From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2020

Terribly nearsighted, I had not been able to afford eyeglasses since I left Oregon six months earlier.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2018

Terribly ill throughout the production, and accompanied by his wife and children – who may have known their time with him was limited – he gave everything he had to the Bison role.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2018

“No, but you think it too, don’t you, darling? It’s not just me? We are happy, aren’t we? Terribly happy?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier