Sentence examples for at a dreadful from inspiring English sources

She took over at a dreadful time.

That may still happen, but at a dreadful price.

Moreover, she can keep shifting characters and accents without making the listener feel as if they're in the audience at a dreadful am-dram production: it never jars or feels knowingly clever, it all just seems to fit the song.

That may still happen, but at a dreadful price.The lengths to which Mr Obasanjo's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) has gone to cling to power have undermined and discredited so many of Nigeria's institutions and office-holders that the country now seems more a prisoner of its bleak past than a beacon for the future.

Even if it can raise new funding its borrowing costs are set to rise after a recent downgrade by credit-rating agencies fearful of the burden of financing Jaguar and Land Rover at a dreadful time for car companies in the rest of the world.

On the subject of his childhood he is brief, but manages in a few words to convey a sense of colourlessness: his family was "traditional Presbyterian"; his education took place at "a dreadful private school"; his parents weren't readers and the school, where "any sort of imagination was seen as rather naughty", didn't encourage an interest in books either.

William Huskisson already believed that he was dying and had resigned himself to his fate; Emily Huskisson at first caused "a dreadful scene ... but at last she calmed herself and during the rest of the time sat weeping by the couch".

So, even calling it quits at midstream of a dreadful Cubs season he had once vowed to endure, no one seems to begrudge Piniella.

The victory was a step in the right direction, if only because the Rangers had been embarrassed at Madison Square Garden in a dreadful 6-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.

Cibulkova double-faulted twice to give up her serve in the opening game, but Li handed it back in similar fashion at 3-2 after a dreadful start that saw her make just two first serves in the first six games.

The 21-year-old last started a match on 4 October, when he was hauled off at half-time at the Emirates in a dreadful 3-0 defeatoto Arsenal.