Sentence examples for dreadful story from inspiring English sources

Mr Remnick's account manages to compress the salient aspects of the dreadful story into a few page that boggle the mind, and set the heart sinking.

There were a lot of jokes people were laughing at in what must be a dreadful story to watch – I dunno.

The boys are wild to know who this mysterious man is and what his crime; his dreadful story eventually links to several of the passengers.

Geographical features and major battles are marked and named, and plummeting temperatures on the return journey are shown along the bottom.The chart tells the dreadful story with painful clarity: in 1812, the Grand Army set out from Poland with a force of 422,000; only 100,000 reached Moscow; and only 10,000 returned.

Then there's The Dreadful Story About Harriet and the Matches, which ends, predictably, with a pile of smoking ashes, and a pair of scarlet shoes reminiscent of the demise of the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, only a lot sadder.

This campaign is turning into a dreadful story at times.

There are some dreadful stories.

There are some dreadful stories to be told, and Mr Sipe tells them.

Yes people were carrying, and told, dreadful stories of watching loved ones die.

The compulsive self-laceration in her columns ensures that her "fans" must hear ever more intimate and dreadful stories about her loneliness and failure with men.

'When I was a student in this university, I often witnessed the dreadful stories of the death of expensive equipment.