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Meaning dreadful meaning
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Topics dreadful topics
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Simple sentences
I have a feeling that something dreadful is going to happen.
It was dreadful weather.
It is so dreadful that I don't want to think of it.
The stormy weather was dreadful.
I've never heard anything more dreadful.
What a dreadful color!
If the wolf had made the girl quake with terror, it seemed like a lamb beside this dreadful lion.
This morning the weather is dreadful.
My little brother says that he had a dreadful dream last night.
He was a good and decent man who had become ensnared in this dreadful affair through no fault of his own.
Tom looks dreadful.
I have dreadful news.
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We will have won our battle, and those dreadful weapons will only be a thing of the past.
I should note that in those days Professor Bulwer was teaching his students about the dreadful methods of carnivorous plants.
Before the dreadful Santo-north face.
Are we really in this dreadful, modern Cairo?
Dreadful night.
It's a dreadful night.
I say, it's a dreadful night.
Yes, it's a dreadful night.
How dreadful.
I've got a funny feeling something dreadful might happen to us if we go back to that house.
I knew I felt something dreadful was going to happen.
The ghosts of executed criminals are in their service, but the living too may fall under their dreadful sway.
Thank goodness I don't have to go to one of those dreadful dinners tonight.
She makes little circles instead of dots. Dreadful.
On coloured lips its blaze reflected my misery's dreadful need.
Dreadful!
Don't force my daughter into this dreadful marriage.
Oh don't do this dreadful thing.
The dreadful threats he's made.
A dreadful day, madam.
Mrs. Burns-Norvell, and that dreadful daughter of hers.
No modern conveniences. lt was dreadful!
It's such a dreadful disease.
Good Lord, how dreadful!
You seem to be staring at my hat. as though you thought there was something dreadful the matter with it.
It was dreadful.
I find this music so dreadful.
The dreaded end of a dreadful day.
Better to see hatred in them than that dreadful emptiness.
Something dreadful has happened to our son.
You dreadful woman.
There's nothing so dreadful about that.
One day she played a dreadful trick on me.
I say, what's that dreadful thing you're playing?
SMOKING IS INDEED A DREADFUL HABIT.
Dreadful big!
Er, Mr Trehearne, if what you tell me is true, it's the most dreadful thing I've ever heard. We hear of wrecks down here.
News and current affairs
Once, I heard a dreadful story of a breech birth which a traditional midwife did not know how to handle.
I've been reading newspaper columns in which writers say how dreadful it is, this mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals.
The Chinese government has neither censored nor refuted Hu's dreadful findings.
The nuclear power crisis at Japan's Fukushima power plant has served as a dreadful reminder that events thought unlikely can and do happen.
It believed that the peripheral economies would deliver serious fiscal austerity, notwithstanding their dreadful growth outlook and general lack of competitiveness.
Japan found to its dismay that two decades of dreadful economic policies resulted in a cumulative bankruptcy of government and the nation's finances.
But one fears that something more dreadful than the daily misery must occur before India's politicians decide to act.
But we have long known that coronaviruses can cause dreadful diseases in domestic animals.
They had names and would never be asked to carry out dreadful or dangerous tasks.
Finally, communication has been dreadful.
Male life expectancy is now less than 60 years, owing to alcoholism, crime, drugs, disease, and a dreadful public health system.
The CPS survey was never designed to do this, but it offered the most favorable gloss on the Bush administration's dreadful record on employment.
African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.
The international community, and the US in particular, is dreadful at the third stage.
I have just finished Alexievich's latest dreadful masterpiece, Secondhand Time, a brutal account of the chaotic Russian capitalism of the 1990s.
This dreadful and endless war needs to be discussed openly if it is to end peacefully.
Germany, traumatized by runaway inflation in the 1920's, and its dreadful political consequences, adamantly opposed any bailout.
Japan's emergence as East Asia's leading power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved three brutal wars in China, in which the Japanese army committed dreadful atrocities.
The current stimulus and bailout plans were hatched in reaction to that dreadful week.
Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta, seemed a long way off.
The Party's unchallenged monopoly on political power systematically ensured that every mistake it made - such as the dreadful decade of the Cultural Revolution - turned into a prolonged nationwide crisis.
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