How to Use terribly in a Sentence

terribly

adverb
  • Thoughts with you all at this terribly sad time.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And what if that fight didn’t go terribly well?
    — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Any loud sound just scares her terribly.
    — Gabriela Vidal, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Were the Mets in first place not too terribly long ago?
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Chiles was given the right score, and thus has been terribly wronged.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The finish is dry and not terribly long.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The fans, meanwhile, don’t get terribly loud even at full speed.
    — Mark Coppock, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Sage was thrown into an all boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
    — Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, something has gone terribly wrong.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Things aren’t going terribly well as of late for the Prius.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Mu-hee was sent to live with her uncle and aunt, who treated her terribly.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
    — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Not terribly hard, as he’s shown before.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
  • To the surprise of no one, something has gone terribly wrong.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 24 June 2025
  • But from the first breath, Roxy sensed something was terribly wrong.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • But even doing very little can still go terribly wrong.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • He will be missed terribly by his family and friends.
    — Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
  • If there weren’t any more car chases, something would be terribly wrong.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The market isn't terribly deep for that need this winter.
    — Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats tried proxy voting before, and it was terribly abused.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Foxx’s health was failing terribly, and his vitals were down.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Still, 39 years later, this terribly stylish new film feels tepid.
    — Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • There is a conflict, and people on both sides are being hurt terribly by it.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But everyone on the Spurs shot terribly from deep in the clutch.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • That’s when the two men realized something had to have been terribly wrong.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That it’s bound to failure is what makes Don Quixote so terribly sad.
    — Ed Simon september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But as dawn broke, the control room received word that something was terribly wrong.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Lucky for them, the trees in Thames Street Park aren’t terribly tall.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
  • While some of you may not agree with my strict notions, so far none of the above is terribly confusing.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
  • Mathew suffered so terribly as his book revealed to the world.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2023

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