Sentence examples for A dreadful day from inspiring English sources

You can have a dreadful day and yet in the evening give your best performance of the month.

Bloody Sunday was a dreadful day for the army, but Blair made a point of saying that he had the "strongest admiration" for the role played by the security forces over the years during the Troubles.

Ron Davies and Terry Paine were the stars for Southampton, but they had a dreadful day on a bog of a pitch that got worse as the rain kept falling.

David Florence became the latest in an increasingly long line of genuine British medal hopefuls to endure a dreadful day at the office, finishing dead last in the final of the canoe slalom and missing out on victory by a titanic margin of more than 14 seconds.

After a dreadful day of sitting on the couch, sleeping on the couch and playing Assassin's Creed from the couch since I was under the weather yesterday, I return to the CrunchGear/TechCrunch office to find a UPS box waiting for me.

Typically, around that time, I had always checked the mail on my way home from a dreadful day at middle school.

Tsotsi has a certain surly charm, enough to command the allegiance of a small gang, and we're introduced to him on a particularly dreadful day.

The notable aspect was not so much the game, which we won 19-0 on a dreadful wet day, but the build-up.

So, unsurprisingly perhaps, when Widgery's report was published three months after the dreadful day, it amounted to an endorsement of the original official reaction.

Lamb's novel is a fictional account of the Columbine shootings, and he weaves firsthand narratives of what happened on that dreadful day with the story of a fictional couple whose lives are forever altered afterwards.

Glynnis MacNicol's article on career burnout for Elle.com brought back all these memories from that dreadful day in the suburbs of Tokyo, fainting in a sample that clung to my exposed ribs and bony hips.