Sentence examples for dreadful sort from inspiring English sources

Sort of fine, in a dreadful sort of way.

I was consumed with a surreal sense of Deja Vu, followed by a dreadful sort of panic that insisted, in my mind, that whatever was in front of me at the moment was the source of all of the horrible things about to happen to me.

He had these dreadful, banal sort of jokes.

Thank goodness President Barack Obama sees this clearly, but he has so many past mistakes to rectify and a dreadful mess to sort out in Iraq.

And the sound system was dreadful, with all sorts of rips and pops.

I'm tired and ill, this dreadful lupus, not the sort of thing you'll understand at all".

As if I was enacting some sort of dreadful personal slight against an ex-boyfriend or something".

He added, "You can't legislate to stop a switch flicking in someone's head and this sort of dreadful action taking place".

Maître Naud, who came into the case at this point and who is a Paris barrister with a high reputation, called it "a sort of dreadful game".

"It was quite difficult at first because we've got quite an active social life and we were going to parties and events and I had this sort of dreadful secret.

"A lot of people, both in the Labour party and outside it, think that would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's leftwing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.