Sentence examples for dreadful by from inspiring English sources

Dreadful, by David Margolick (Other Press).

Sainsbury's second-quarter sales weren't dreadful by the recent standards of Tesco and Morrisons.

It is simply dreadful: by no means a role model for German politics.

It means, too, wiping from my mind that last performance, brilliant or dreadful, by someone else, or even the same person.

The tales of gang warfare and football hooliganism in Action, a short-lived comic of the late 1970s, were compared to gruesome Victorian penny dreadfuls by the Sun, a tabloid newspaper not known for shying away from sensationalism.

It is not difficult, therefore, to imagine the reaction when Hearts doubled their early advantage by exploiting some dreadful slackness by the home team's defenders.

Nor should we let a Tory government brush off the need for radical change by saying it was all a dreadful mistake by a previous Labour leader.

Bombed by the Allies and ravaged by the Red Army, Berlin was rebuilt in a dreadful hurry, by rival armies of capitalist and communist town planners.

74 mins: Dreadful miss by Wright-Phillips!

Because that's a dreadful drawing, by anyone's standards.

The division's sales in the latest quarter were dreadful: down by 29%, year on year.