Sentence examples for do something dreadful from inspiring English sources

"Their greatest terror," Mr. Levine said, "is that they'll become like their parents and maybe do something dreadful, like furnish the house in knotty pine".

But then he tells her that it is futile for them to care for each other as Frank would surely do something dreadful to them.

It's about a group of friends who receive the same letter, signed "Your Caretaker", asking them to do something dreadful … all because of their nefarious deed one night in the California desert.

I think he was perfectly capable of doing something dreadful".

It was also possible that we had unwittingly done something dreadful and that no one loved us any more.

This angry old man, who is not religious, who struggles to make a living by doing minor repair jobs and gardening, who drinks in the evening and argues with his wife, had not yet seen the appalling scenes on television, but had heard only that some people had done something dreadful to America.

"I decided I must do something about this dreadful racism.

The effort began with a plea from African ministers of health to "do something" after the dreadful 1996 1997 group A meningococcal epidemic with >250 000 reported cases.

"If the council wants to do something it should cut down that dreadful shrub which is obscuring the piece".

Why put yourself out to do something good if there's a dreadful catch?

Something dreadful was loose in the world, and the urge to stop it, to do something -- to prove something -- was overriding a career-long schooling in the virtues of caution and skepticism.