Sentence examples for dreadful to find from inspiring English sources

(Female participant (KA5), Kalgoorlie)" ""… it took me a long time, probably 18 months, which sounds dreadful, to find a GP that would listen and knew that you were real, because you know, pain is very difficult to pinpoint".

Dreadful waking to find M. there instead.

He worked tirelessly in the most dreadful conditions to find my father," she said.

Mixed in with the abrasions and lacerations which most people in the hospital had suffered, he began to find dreadful burns.

But it was Italy's dreadful and thoroughly undeserved misfortune to find themselves so handicapped that they were unable even to compete respectably.

One also sympathises with Kirk Douglas, whose attempt to listen to a record of Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 in Joseph Mankiewicz's A Letter to Three Wives (1949) is frustrated by a philistine radio producer (Florence Bates), who scratches the disc while trying to find her dreadful programme.

And then Terry comes back from folding laundry to find the dreadful message?

Despite its dreadful potential, "Princess of Thieves" manages to find comfortable footing on the treacherous path linking medieval myth and contemporary attitudes.

I remember reading the novel Notes on a Scandal and thinking: I would love to play that woman, to try to find a humanity in that dreadful person.

It is to the credit of families that they have never given up on their quest to find out what happened on that dreadful day.

"It does not seem possible, at least in the near future", he wrote, "to find a way to release these dreadful amounts of energy which is all to the good because the first effect of an explosion of such a dreadful amount of energy would be to smash into smithereens the physicist who had the misfortune to find a way to do it".