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How to use dreadful in a sentence

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In the afternoon I went to the baths but found the water dirty and full of the most dreadful greasy-haired cads.
Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets.
I think it's dreadful that politicians should be involved in this sort of thing, that we should have our hands tied.
They even made the first jokes I had heard about the dreadful happenings last month.
At first the family thought the fire must have been some dreadful accident.
And that was dreadful, because we were bombarded with these doodlebugs and we were instructed during the night.
He's tallying up all the dreadful mistakes and errors of judgement that got us to this place.
Yes, there is the odd dodgy track and occasional dreadful lyric, but on the whole this album is far better than many would of dreamed possible.
There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
But you really do yearn for some of those dreadful, impossible-to-solve, utterly boring, handicaps to get the old heave-ho.
She focuses on the dreadful thing that was done to her, and her heavy-hearted decision not to complain to anyone in authority about it.
On the contrary, it would have seemed an admission that our spheres and years divided us and that we were making a dreadful mistake.
He was an evangelist, he was a missionary who was serving his empire and trying to solve what he saw as a dreadful problem.
Then on June 29, after drinking a cup of chicory, she felt a dreadful pain in her abdomen.
From Madrid to Moscow the horrors of the terrorist bomb took a dreadful toll last week.
Pressure can tell on the players and, when we made that dreadful mistake for their first goal, the pressure was almighty.
She described how the dreadful conditions and challenges of the trip had used all her mental reserves.
Who actually watches these dreadful films and thinks that they're masterpieces of modern cinema?
It was invariably an exercise in dreadful, prankish, surrealist humorousness.
The basement was dark and clammy, filled with dreadful silence and the heavy stench of pain and doom.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was a dreadful thing to do, from a gastronomic or from a health point of view.
The inexorableness of Dante is nowhere more dreadful than in the eighth Canto of the Inferno.
The length of time which must elapse before the trial could come on was dreadful.
Also the stench was so dreadful that we must bind linen about our nostrils to strain the foetid air.
The dreadful disorders of frequent elections have also necessitated a septennial instead of a triennial duration.
An indiscriminating personal magnetism is perhaps the most dreadful vice a wife can have.
And the silence, broken only by the faint rustle of the doura, was startling, was almost dreadful.
You see, Cordelia is so dreadful gone on that eg man that she can't bear to see another female within hailin' distance of him.
He came out of it sluggishly, to find the relief from the dreadful pressure almost as stupefying as the deceleration itself.
Oh, you do not know how dreadful to be at feud with a man like Fergus Mac-Ivor.
It is so cold, so dark, my senses are so benumbed, and the gloom upon me is so dreadful.
But that only makes him angry, and he says dreadful things about the gentry.
But indeed, the teaching of God Bogey is an outrage upon the soul of a child scarcely less dreadful than an indecent assault.
The eyelids had been cut off, and only two dreadful, bloodied, glaring things of horror appealed mutely to God.
My dear, I'm glad and thankful you've done with that dreadful, dangerous game.
He'd have made the young one scrouge himself up dreadful narrow an' wriggle himself free, somehow.
It was a dreadful conviction that was forced upon me, and as wonderful as terrible.
Our father is so good, and it is dreadful to me that Corney won't mind him!
Before them all, in imagination, stood the dreadful whipping-post of bridewell.
A dreadful silence hung over the great theatre as the heavy door into the bull pen was rolled back.
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