dreadful

IPA: drˈɛdfʌɫ

Examples of "dreadful" in Sentences

He wrote that Catholic music is in dreadful shape.
Cousin Helen, I've had such a dreadful, _dreadful_ time! "
That the South lived in dreadful fear (and armed preparedness) of a slave revolt?
It would be dreadful, _dreadful_, if Pegler began seeing ghosts, and turning hysterical.
"That I can't stand it, that I can't go on with it, that it is dreadful to me, -- _dreadful! _"
As I write this, Neil and Christine Hamilton, as if in dreadful warning to him, are appearing on Hole in the Wall.
"Oh! would this long day, this dreadful, _dreadful_ waiting for -- _what_? ever come to an end?" she asked herself over and over again.
He watched all his steps, and always spoke to him with an angry countenance; punishing him for what he called his dreadful rebellion against such a clement prince as the Stadtholder.
Death is, as one of the ancients observes, [Greek: to ton phoberon phoberotaton], _of dreadful things the most dreadful_: an evil, beyond which nothing can be threatened by sublunary power, or feared from human enmity or vengeance.
But no less dreadful is the sense that for many years, the state of Israel has been squandering not only the lives of its children but also the miracle it experienced — the great and rare opportunity bestowed upon it by history, the opportunity to create an enlightened, decent, democratic state that would conduct itself according to Jewish and universal values.