Sentence examples for dreadful to think from inspiring English sources

"Plus, when I spend eight hours knitting one, it's dreadful to think that I'd have to spend another eight hours making the exact same thing".

And in this play her runs over a hare, takes it to a butcher gets the money and buys some roses for his mistress … It's dreadful to think that she heard it.

He said every 12 hours; but how dreadful to think of their standing 12 hours over a boiling cauldron, and doing the same thing; and he owned to me that sometimes they did fall asleep and get their poor fingers into the mill; and he shewed me the hatchet that was always ready to sever the whole limb, as the only means of saving the poor sufferer's life!

It was dreadful to watch; worse to think of him in the Oval Office.

Dire and disorienting, idiotic and inexplicable -- but also sort of temporary, solvable and, if we're lucky, not as openly dreadful as we like to think.

The first is to think how shaming, how dreadful, how could I have written such drivel?

The experience drove Chilton to think more about the dreadful conflict that had made so many people simply disappear off the face of the Earth.

Many struggle to find a comparable degenerative disorder to associate with Huntington's, but we encourage them to think of each disease as its own dreadful condition.

Patterson wasn't sure about the prose, which is "super-chatty, full of French and English slang and verbless sentences … Donoghue might be wanting us to think 'penny dreadful', but some readers will be thinking 'Man Booker-shortlisted author' and be confused".

Persons have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson; and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger".

Those people who we do not care to think of, yet it must be true that sometimes dreadful tyrannies were all that liberated the victims of other dreadful tyrannies.