Sentence examples for dreadful check from inspiring English sources

Without condoms, deaths will become a powerful and dreadful check on economic and population growth, as we are beginning to see in southern Africa.

Most of Alejo Vietti's costumes are lovely, particularly Isabella's and Juliet's (Kate Hess) glamorous dresses, but who decided the Duke should walk around in that dreadful windowpane check?

Led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Israel is adamant to continue the ever-expanding land grab driven by illegal home demolitions and confiscations, daily dreadful human rights abuses at check points, random imprisonment and assassinations, suppression of independent media, and systematic ethnic-cleansing of Palestinians.

Check my pretzel, makes me feel dreadful, gonna feel fretful, might make me tremble.

The NHS is a strained system, struggling to keep its costs in check and producing patchy and sometimes dreadful outcomes for patients in places where management falls short.

I hunch my shoulders, racked with the dreadful hope that the patient will invite me to come over and "check" his blood pressure.

Typically, around that time, I had always checked the mail on my way home from a dreadful day at middle school.

Want to check your email but don't want your shoulders to get that dreadful sudden chill?

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".