Sentence examples for dreadful children from inspiring English sources

The Casual Vacancy is not about the cosmopolitan middle classes, with their dreadful children called Oscar and Milo and Noah (or, as I heard a woman telling a new friend at the theatre the other night, Blue and Day).

The World's Worst Children is billed as an "entertaining, surreal and spectacular" collection of 10 stories, each one written about a delightfully dreadful child.

It is dreadful to have your children and problems discussed in a room full of strangers, or in front of people in your community.

There are also two human heads (looking a lot like Giacometti's last sculptures) and three dreadful small children.

I saw limbs brought out which bore no resemblance to human arm or leg, flesh burned away by this dreadful stuff, small children already beginning to decompose because there had been air-locks beneath the slag.

"We are clearly dealing with problems as we see the most dreadful exploitation of children.

Brian Alderson discussing A Bloody Tragedy… A Dreadful Warning to Disobedient Children.

In the end the Father of the Turkmen bequeaths his children a dreadful legacy.

The "penny dreadfuls" include the magnificently titled The Bloody Tragedy, or A Dreadful Warning to Disobedient Children.

UNICEF sincerely hopes that the dreadful situation of Afghan children and women, who have long endured the brunt of the decades of deprivation, will be accorded the highest priority.

In the midst of dreadful suffering the child-Equiano asserts the magical beauty of life.