1.  I bought this bloody awful place.

2.  Research universities are awful places for freshmen to be adrift, to be searching, to be in need.

3.  She had to work in that awful place and get nits and steal and be beaten for wetting the bed.

4.  The house was an awful place, Carolyn thought.

5.  Dear brother, let me out of this awful place and the blessed Virgin will reward you.

6.  A museum is an awful place to experience art.

7.  But what if Jack actually went to Micronesia and found that it was an awful place to dive?

8.  He said he is almost looking forward to the end, to being a full-time father again, to not dedicating so much time to such an awful place.

9.  Just the same, the families of thousands of victims are left wondering how we got to this awful place.