Sentence examples for dreadful thoughts from inspiring English sources

I put the car in park and sobbed, afflicted by whiplash, the caterwaul of car alarms, and dreadful thoughts of vehicular homicide.

During the night the demons and dreadful thoughts come, say the patients, and they become anxious and sad and start thinking why has this happened to me...and you have to listen and take your time (I 19).

A dreadful thought occurs.

Smart had a dreadful thought: if Mitchell took her far from home and then murdered her, her parents might never know what had happened to her.

Isn't it a dreadful thought that one old Etonian could be replaced by another?" Banks's associates come from a different world.

Ostensibly, Joan's death was an accident, but Burroughs was harried by the dreadful thought that, subconsciously, he had meant to kill her.

A dreadful thought is in your mind: a bad performance a drop too many of sweat, a verbal gaffe, a sudden shiftiness in the eyes could strip away the presidential aura and mark the beginning of the end.

Perhaps it's a desire to retaliate for all the times such things have been inflicted on me by BBC Radio 4's dreadful "Thought for the day", before I manage to turn the damned thing off.

IT IS a dreadful thought to middle-class Britons who scrimp to send their children to the fee-paying schools that educate 7% of the country's children but produce around half of those with really good exam grades: their sacrifices may be not just futile, but counterproductive.

It's a dreadful thought.

A dreadful thought: this novel will engage nobody but myself.