Sentence examples for dreadful to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "dreadful to" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe an unpleasant feeling or experience. For example, you could say "The news of the lay-offs was dreadful to hear."

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That's dreadful to contemplate.

But his eyes were dreadful to behold.

A Russian Milosevic is too dreadful to contemplate.

How dreadful to deprive them of all that.

It would be dreadful to be entirely unreadable.

If they do not, the impact of their decision may be too dreadful to contemplate.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly".

She protested that marrying a divorced man would have been "too dreadful" to contemplate.

People always ask 'wasn't it dreadful to be locked in?' but that's a complete misunderstanding.

They are still absolutely dreadful to walk across, but I wouldn't have it any other way".

The crowds had been forewarned that to come by car was too dreadful to attempt.

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