Sentence examples for a dreadful bid from inspiring English sources

Jacoby naturally persevered with five hearts, at which point Lenz made a dreadful bid of six no-trump.

When Lenz made a dreadful bid six no-trump and was doubled, his partner, Oswald Jacoby, retreated to seven hearts.

"Now goddess," he answered, "there is something behind all this; you cannot be really meaning to help me home when you bid me do such a dreadful thing as put to sea on a raft.

A dreadful controversy indeed!

What a dreadful impoverishment.

A dreadful thought occurs.

A dreadful end.

It's a dreadful, dreadful thing".

It was a dreadful, dreadful blow.

It is a dreadful, dreadful meal.

A dreadful miss.