When I got to the car, some distance away, I found it dreadfully scratched up.
When I was about to set off on a three-day walking tour through the English Lake District carrying a borrowed steel-framed backpack, I found it dreadfully uncomfortable.
Teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics normally drives teachers crazy because their kids find it so dreadfully boring.
Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
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.
As the nation's mail carriers plunge into the holiday rush, Congress should deliver a bonus present of the very thing constituents find in dreadfully short supply — creative compromise from the Capitol.
Anyone acquainted with depression will find Leopardi dreadfully plausible: another name for his "reason" could be depressive lucidity, and his works communicate an apathy and an anhedonia that are almost contagious.
Say, if you're a chess whiz but can't make a foul shot to save your life, and find the game dreadfully boring, don't join the basketball team just because your friends are.
I had just found something dreadfully dead in my bed not long after digging up a girl's severed head in the bog.
West of Grand Cayman, the Sea Hunter encountered heavy seas and winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour in a storm not unlike the one in which Columbus found himself "dreadfully buffeted" in 1502.
