Sample Sentences for
abysmal
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abysmal as in:  an abysmal lecture

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    Even Neville scraped through, his good Herbology mark making up for his abysmal Potions one.  (source)
    abysmal = terrible
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    I didn't do my homework, I didn't study, and my attendance was abysmal.  (source)
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    The dealership had approved the sale despite their abysmal credit rating.  (source)
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    Ration card restrictions, abysmal puddings, the deteriorating quality of fingernail varnish—these are crimes they feel in their souls.  (source)
    abysmal = terrible
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    I reviewed over and over the plans that had seemed so straightforward before I arrived in jail, and I swore to myself and every god I knew that if I got out alive, I would never never never take any risks that were so abysmally stupid again.†  (source)
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    Certainly she was not taking an interest in her schoolwork: her marks had been abysmal.  (source)
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    At the end of the Depression his wealth had been nothing but a handful of controlling interests, bought at abysmally low prices, salable only at lower prices still.†  (source)
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    The grouping on my other shots was abysmal.†  (source)
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    Although the hill ranch was large it was abysmally poor.†  (source)
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    For better or worse, my aim is so abysmal that it hits the back of her chair.†  (source)
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    Colonel Cathcart went away from General Dreedle with a gulp and kicked the chaplain out of the officers' club, and it was exactly the way it almost was two months later after the chaplain had tried to persuade Colonel Cathcart to rescind his order increasing the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon,†  (source)
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    Yes, the chances of success are abysmal.†  (source)
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    But in the San Antonio Today ran so abysmally that his trainer concluded he had no chance in the Santa Anita Handicap.†  (source)
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