How to Use ungodly in a Sentence

ungodly

adjective
  • What an ungodly racket they're making!
  • And tell the city about the ungodly time of the morning this happens.
    Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 4 June 2017
  • That's an ungodly amount of time spent behind the wheel.
    Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Pim forces him to see the job through, putting an ungodly amount of blind, and kind, faith in the man’s ability to find a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
    Lex Briscuso, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Life finds a way, and so do franchises that make ungodly amounts of money.
    Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2018
  • The turkeys would still be lurking, despite the ungodly heat.
    Josh Dahlke, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Even a stack of nondescript seashells that had adorned Didion’s home won an ungodly sum.
    Hannah Elliott, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Anyone who spends an ungodly amount of time wondering where their keys are will find a lot to love in this key holder.
    Bianca Rodriguez, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
  • Then Durant hits a three-point dagger from an ungodly number of feet out.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • Employees work ungodly hours, six or seven days a week, for months on end.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Mar. 2017
  • That’s not to say that Mahomes can’t wield an ungodly amount of production on the Chargers’ defense, a unit that might be in its toughest matchup of the season.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • For some ungodly reason, Vulture has been thrown into a Food Week.
    Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Crystal Palace marvelled at his ungodly speed and brought him in to form a deadly wing duo of Bolasie and Wilfried Zaha.
    SI.com, 29 June 2019
  • But someday soon an A-lister might offer an ungodly sum for their mobile home, too.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And that often involves an ungodly amount of olive oil, since eggplant soaks up the stuff as if there were an impending shortage.
    Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Our culture now places what many see as an ungodly amount of power in the hands of the most influential social platforms.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2022
  • That ungodly phrase is a clue to the deep connection between the criminal and child welfare systems.
    Chris Gottlieb, Time, 17 Mar. 2021
  • In the past couple of months, the former mayor of New York has spent ungodly sums of money advertising all across the Super Tuesday map.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The Thunder hemorrhaged points at an ungodly rate without Russ on the floor, getting outscored by 58 points in just 46 total minutes against the Rockets.
    Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 May 2017
  • And at the same time, the CEOs and the corporate executives from these companies are making ungodly sums of money.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • The worst part, though, is in sitting through that ungodly amount of time required between fermentation and bottling.
    Mo Egger, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • What horrifies me is that there are parents who so disapprove, who are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible or ungodly or against nature.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The only unknown is at which ungodly hour bleary-eyed officials will emerge with a solution.
    Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The Pelicans played at an ungodly pace, so everyone’s numbers are going to be up.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018
  • Kaliardos wrote graciously at 5:30 AM, an ungodly but normal hour when prepping for a shoot.
    Chaédria Labouvier, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Someone is screaming at you from behind a cage, calling you and your friends bastards, saying ungodly things about your mother.
    Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 21 May 2018
  • And my mother, the woman who less than an hour ago was calling me all kinds of ungodly names, keeps touching Jesus’ hand and bending forward, and at this point, her V-neck sweater might as well be a U-neck.
    Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 4 Mar. 2018
  • His efforts pay off, nominally: Michael Morbius doesn’t want to be a baddie, though his ungodly urges keep pulling him in that direction.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But foam isn’t great in all cases (like for people with tinnitus), and a $50 noise machine might not be worth much if there’s ungodly snoring happening right beside you.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 20 June 2018
  • In that whirlwind, some 400 people were implicated in the ungodly practice of witchery.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021

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