Sentence examples for dreadful were from inspiring English sources

Dreadful were the parodies with their backward-running sentences.

It's a harrowing tale, although Simpson noted that "for me this book still falls short of articulating just how dreadful were some of those lonely days.

If Sleuth had been a modern extension to the dame's constructions, then Death On The Nile (1978), Evil Under The Sun (1982) - Shaffer's favourite of the three - and Appointment With Death (1988), which he co-wrote and regarded as perfectly dreadful, were the stately homes.

Something dreadful is down there".

And "dreadful was the din/Of hissing through the hall..."...

One case, however dreadful, is no basis for making policy.

"Sooner or later, something dreadful is going to happen".

Something dreadful is looming.

This is dreadful, isn't it?

Dreadful, she was.

A dreadful muse is still a muse.