Sentence examples for dreadful battle from inspiring English sources

Reading a centenary account of the Somme the other day, I noted generals hesitating to do the right thing in that dreadful battle for fear of what the Mail might say in 1916.

The Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire talked about her own "dreadful" battle with post-natal depression as she announced the expansion of her parenting charity based in Towcester.

These are "Battle with the Four Fiends", an arrangement of "The Dreadful Fight", and "Zeromus", an arrangement of "The Final Battle", both of which can be found on the album The Skies Above, published in 2004.

A drunk streaker with a silly hat provided the sole relief in a dreadful relegation battle in the Olympiastadion.

But the dreadful reality of these battle scenes is considerably sapped by Ray's bizarre, presumably semi-delirious behavior, involving total nudity and his brother's bulky manuscript duct-taped to his body like a suicide bomb.

The victorious General Eyre Coote, however, found the battle scenes "dreadful" due to the lack of medical support in the field: Such a multitude of poor objects, and not in my power to give them the least assistance for want of every one necessary requisite for an hospital.

22 Yanks win the pennant in fifth game, and Piniella admits he is proud of the way his old team and his old town battled through dreadful times.

10.46pm BST Mickelson's been battling away after a dreadful start.

Wales Under-20 continued their Six Nations title challenge with a battling win over their Italian counterparts in dreadful conditions in Viterbo.

"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".

I went to Battle Mountain five weeks before, to see if it was dreadful enough to be anointed, officially, "The Armpit of America". I was exorbitantly convinced.