Sentence examples for Terrible from inspiring English sources

The word 'terrible' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used to describe something that is very bad, unpleasant, or of poor quality. Example: The food at the restaurant was terrible, and the service was even worse.

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Terrible

adjective

Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.

  • The witch gave him a terrible curse.

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But during the Games I got the terrible news that my uncle had died, probably from Ebola.

"That's terrible".

"It's a terrible situation.

And it was terrible.

That is why I have sought, until now, to fight my imprisonment quietly from within, to make the authorities understand that this is all a terrible mistake, that I've been caught in the middle of a political struggle that is not my own.

But if Kutcher and Bieber think that they can just swan in and become the most offensively terrible double act of all time, they've got another thing coming.

It's not terrible: Bibb has a lot of fun as Rogers, cursing, burping and generally offending anyone she comes into contact with, and Dratch is a safe pair of hands as her beleaguered pal.

"I put in the Inherent Vice screener, and it became apparent that it's a terrible, incoherent movie, so I turned it off.

Inspired by these old, dark tales I piled on the heartache, not an easy sell for a children's story (the heroine, a little girl, is eventually imprisoned and comes to a terrible end).

Police and the boys' families have always feared something terrible happened to them, especially as Patrick's new bike, his Christmas present, was found abandoned outside the shop where they were last seen.

"I had the most terrible battles with him and the head of the civil service.

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