Sentence examples for dreadful exercise from inspiring English sources

Now that the holidays are over, many companies are about to make their employees go through the most dreadful exercise of the year: the annual performance review.

One is a remarkable intellectual fairness and patience, even with the least obviously congenial elements of the culture of the time: middle-brow novels mercifully forgotten today, or the dreadful ballroom exercise laid down by Victor Sylvester.

I hope it's because the exercise is hypnotic and not because the dialogue I write is a dreadful bore.

Maybe the programme will be presented as an exercise in whistleblowing, as with the shocking exposure through undercover filming of the dreadful abuse of disabled people at Winterbourne View.

The danger is that it is merely an exercise in nostalgia and if it suggests that the empire was all wonderful, then clearly that's dreadful".

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".

Just dreadful!

Dreadful shot.

Dreadful creature!