Sentence examples for a dreadful year from inspiring English sources

It's been a nightmare throughout – a dreadful year".

It's been a dreadful year for growing cut flowers.

His defeat completed a dreadful year for the men's game here.

He remained one of the steadiest players in a dreadful year.

Shares plunged (again), topping off a dreadful year for the former darling of the City.

One thing is certain: It was a dreadful year for investors.

Lingering for two-and-a-half dreadful years, a living ghost, he described himself as "Robert Schumann, honorary member of heaven".

"It does feel like a particularly dreadful year". The one exception to the confrontational climate at the security council this year has been its deliberations on fighting the Ebola virus.

There will, no doubt, be some who thrived over the past 12 months – that Jedward pair haven't had an entirely dreadful year – but the list of those glad to see the back of 2009 is perhaps rather longer.

The agreement by the Bank of Ireland's lenders to accept shares in lieu of the money owed to them generated a one-time gain of 1.8bn euros in 2011, which masked what would otherwise have been an equally dreadful year for the bank.

The Return; Dying: A Memoir; Another Day in the Death of America; Summer Before the Dark Is it a sign, or a consequence, of this dreadful year that the best books displayed stern lucidity in the face of darkness and death?