Sentence examples for a dreadful thing from inspiring English sources

"It's a dreadful thing.

"What a dreadful thing you've done.

That isn't such a dreadful thing.

That's a dreadful thing to do.

the pic is pretty great.. War is a dreadful thing.

Sheepishly, she adds: "What a dreadful thing to say".

It was a dreadful affair, as these things usually are, where the film-makers are plied with cheap drink and shuffled from screenings to interviews to dinner in a dire cafe, followed by bed in the B&B "where Barry Humphries stayed, and he didn't complain".

If it is possible to make judgments at all about how people die, then the death of a bomb disposal expert is a less dreadful thing than the death of a child, or a civilian mother, who walks on to the same landmine by accident.

It's a dreadful, dreadful thing".

A very dreadful thing has arisen: people leaving money.

"To have a loved one disappear, to not know if they are dead or alive; if they died, how much they suffered, how long it took To have this awful mix of loss and impotence, this lack of certainty, gnawing away at you day after day... is a truly dreadful thing".