Sentence examples for dreadful months from inspiring English sources
She started writing only in "the final few appalling dreadful months", before she gave up drinking.
After working as a technical writer for a chemical company over "six dreadful months", he spent 10 years as a high school chemistry teacher, writing in his spare time.
And those are only the self-inflicted wounds: add in the news of the 2,000th American death in Iraq, and you can see why the mood in the White House was a cocktail of depression and panic.Mr Bush's dreadful week came at the end of a couple of dreadful months.
The action of The Flowers of War (by Geling Yan, trabslated by Nicky Harman, Harvill Secker, £10) takes place during the dreadful months of the Nanjing massacre of 1937-38; Under the Hawthorn Tree opens in 1974, in the dying days of the cultural revolution.
The administration of Jessops was quickly followed by the collapse of the entertainment chain HMV and the DVD rental firm Blockbuster in January, capping a dreadful month for thousands of high street staff who lost their jobs.
Now the public in Britain, which has the second-largest contingent in Afghanistan, is agonising over the country's role in the war after a dreadful month in Helmand (see article).After eight years of disheartening warfare, it is tempting to see NATO's mission as a repeat of past misadventures in the Hindu Kush.
"Summer months are traditionally slower months for the equity market and August is usually a dreadful month for investors," he said.
Men's magazines had a dreadful six months during the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations results for the first half of the year.
There will also be no cigars for Serco's Churchillian boss Rupert Soames after a profit warning in December capped a dreadful 12 months.
The prize for Sampras is a place in the semi-finals of the US Open against reigning champion Marat Safin - and a chance in the last grand slam of the year to end a dreadful 12 months which has seen him go 17 tournaments without a title.
