Sentence examples for dreadful words from inspiring English sources
"I beseech you to take quite seriously these dreadful words," he wrote.
"I have made the point since that, if Australia had an Aboriginal Australian prime minister and the opposition leader went and stood in front of signs that said 'Sack the black', or inserted any of the dreadful words we have for Aboriginal Australians, it would have been a career-ending moment," she told the Atlantic.
(Whatever talent I possess as a "humorist" — dreadful word — I owe to her).
Conspicuous consumption, like that dreadful word "luxury," feels dated: as '80s as Nan Kempner and leveraged buyouts, as '90s as the Miller sisters and tiny Prada backpacks.
It's curious, though, that Private Eye and others are happy to use that dreadful word "hack" – a hateful description which only encourages readers to distrust us – and also do not hesitate to use "hackette".
His "blunder of the first magnitude", according to Taylor, was the failure to close off the tunnel that led to the already overcrowded central "pens" – a dreadful word for a sports venue – of the Leppings Lane terrace.
She told me about the time when tourists aboard a plane feared her mother, dressed in a black abaya, treating her like the dreadful word my friend couldn't bear to utter.
When he heard the dreadful word, he emitted a shrill, heart-rending cry of despair, looked around him, as though eagerly seeking something, then turned to flee and rushed with outspread arms against a wall of the court, writhing, and scratching it as though trying to force an entrance between the stones, like a [polyp] clinging to a rock.
Chinese fans don't have this, they just chant dreadful swear words.
