Sentence examples for dreadful town from inspiring English sources

Corbyn sounds like a dreadful town, dresses like a catalogue model for the Sue Ryder shop and won't look significantly different when he's been dead for a week.

Gaitonde's own origins are equally painful and totally convincing: the dreadful injustices of small-town life shape the monster he is to become.

Leaving behind more than one person's quota of dreadful luck in small-town Texas – abandoned by a mother, raised by a grandmother and her creepy partner – memories float through his mind, with flashbacks of a horrific rape of himself and his girlfriend at the hands of a local gang.

22 Yanks win the pennant in fifth game, and Piniella admits he is proud of the way his old team and his old town battled through dreadful times.

He is a ferocious sea captain, and the chance arrival of the narrator on his vessel exposes the soft town dweller to his dreadful brutalities.

TODAY's dreadful suicide bombing in Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, is a reminder that Iraq in 2011 is a long way from real stability.

A couple of years ago, I made the dreadful mistake of going out on the town the night before the Golden Globes.

Bombed by the Allies and ravaged by the Red Army, Berlin was rebuilt in a dreadful hurry, by rival armies of capitalist and communist town planners.

(Dargis) 'Playing for Keeps' (PG-13, 1 50) Gerard Butler, as a former soccer star contractually irresistible to women, entices a town full of soccer moms in this dreadful comedy.

Mark Waite "Hate the dreadful Howard shopping centre: a blight on a previously pleasant town and contrary to the spirit of the garden city".

A huge cast of miniature figurines populated the town and, in Hogancamp's photographs, they were enacting dreadful dramas upon each other.