Sentence examples for dreadful holiday from inspiring English sources

"It was New Year's Eve," said Ms. Berkley, referring to it as "such a dreadful holiday when you're single".

Recently, Leonard S. Riggio, chairman and largest shareholder of Barnes & Noble, predicted a dreadful holiday shopping season and wrote in an internal memorandum that "never in all my years as a bookseller have I seen a retail climate as poor as the one we are in".

If we are going to get conned year after year into celebrating Cupid's dreadful holiday, we should at least make the most of it by forgoing the off-brand drug store chocolates and the teddy bears made in sweatshops.

A dreadful 2013 holiday sales season left RadioShack's fourth-quarter sales down 20% on the same period of 2012, at $935 million.

Dessert wines are often recommended for holiday meals -- dreadful advice.

George (Georgina) and Anne are staying in the stables for a holiday and meet dreadful Henrietta who likes to be called Henry.

Taking food out of the equation altogether, especially on holiday was more strange than dreadful.

And I know that Cornish holidays, Joe Orton allusions and a vocabulary of "dreadful" and "die a death" don't strengthen her case.

It's like the central plot of a dreadful sci-fi novel you'd find on the bookshelf of a holiday rental cottage.

"We had these dreadful secondhand cars that would always die a death, or we'd go on holiday to Cornwall, come back and it would have been nicked.

They make comics, phrases ("Friends With Benefits," "He's Just Not That Into You") or holidays ("New Year's Eve," "Valentine's Day") and attach scripts that are often dreadful.