Sentence examples for dreadfully as from inspiring English sources

I shall miss him dreadfully, as will the hundreds whose lives he saved and also their children and grandchildren.

nodding dreadfully, as he thought, from the topmost of the helmet.

Even in this dreary 6-7 season, the Giants have seldom played as dreadfully as in those first 55 minutes.

Accidentally, she later overhears the woman cursing dreadfully as she is being put under the anesthetic and Mrs. Murdock is quite shocked.

Following Hofmannsthal, Martin shows Everyman's knowledge of mortality -- which even toward the very end still has the power to present itself as dreadfully as some palpable, external monster -- dissolving at the last into a muted inward certainty of salvation.

He died a few months before the arrival of the first generation of iPods; I missed his response to them dreadfully, as I have every new arrival in the digital sphere since.

It is as simple, and as dreadfully complicated, as that.

The girl's clothes caught fire and she was so dreadfully burnt as to cause her death".

Mr. Blair, who appears disguised as a prime minister his subordinates call D. L., meaning Divine Light or Dreadfully Lightweight, hasn't as much reason for anger as the Greek demagogue Cleon.

But I found it bothersome because, as I was reading him, Aristotle appeared not only ignorant of mechanics, but a dreadfully bad physical scientist as well.

The film, inspired by the screenwriter Will Reiser's real-life story of being given a cancer diagnosis in his mid-20s, treats its subject matter as he did in real life: as dreadfully serious and dreadfully funny.