Sentence examples for a more terrible from inspiring English sources

Our side did terrible things to avoid a more terrible outcome.

For her to have parted with it a more terrible betrayal still.

The selfless excuse of nobility is a more terrible temptation than mere personal ambition.

To judge from the coverage of the last few months, you would think that in 1970 an Irish orphanage was a more terrible place than a Romanian one.

So I went out again into the open and walked along our line; a few heavies were still pounding about us, but a more terrible sound now reached my ears.

Ursula carries within her a vague, dimly apprehended sense of other, semi-lived lives, inexpressible except as impetuous actions – such as when she pushes a housemaid down the stairs to save her from a more terrible ending.

There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness – a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.

This was a terrible event, caused by a much more terrible event, which again brought to the surface the many troubling aspects of how the nuclear industry operates.

But I'm here to tell you there is a far more terrible beast lurking in the matrimonial jungle.

"There is not in the world a coast more terrible than this!" the British historian Lord Bryce said of Tierra del Fuego, where the breakers roar in upon the coast with a voice that, it is claimed, can be heard twenty miles inland on a still night.

In his witness statement, Gascoigne added: "The most difficult and damaging thing was being convinced for years that I was being bugged in some way, which had a far more terrible effect on my mind, even though I also thought that my friends and family were leaking information about me".