Sentence examples for dreadful odds from inspiring English sources
— Barbara Steiner survived life as a child in the Warsaw ghetto and three Nazi death camps, emerging against dreadful odds without family or belongings but with a powerful story to tell.
In spite of knowing the frightening odds, it still comes as a terrifying shock when we find that this dreadful statistic applies to us.
"The odds are just dreadful, and they seem to be getting worse," Julie A. Olson, a vice president for licensing at Pfizer, told a recent biotechnology conference.
Meanwhile, breast cancer rates continue to be unconscionably high: Today, a woman's lifetime odds are a dreadful 1 in 8.
If it simply means 'best paid' then that tells its own story: that it is actually such a dreadful job we have to pay over the odds to tempt Fabio Capello.
Dr Haigh confirmed that he considered odds of 1 in 6.5 million to be "still pretty dreadful".
Analysing the odds of winning the lottery after the October rule change, he said: "They were dreadful before, they are more dreadful now".
