Sentence examples for had made a dreadful from inspiring English sources

Hicks, aggrieved, saw that he had made a dreadful mistake.

Almost immediately, Murray realized she had made "a dreadful mistake".

Again and again, the truth was confronting me: I was a born townie, and I had made a dreadful mistake in coming here.

In an 1866 lecture at the Royal Military Academy in London he announced that he had made "a dreadful discovery" that "war is the foundation of all the arts, as well as the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men".

Though there is time for him to catch up, he has made a dreadful start.

"I think it's just a dreadful mistake that psychology is making," he said, "and I think that New Mexico has made a dreadful mistake".

There was just a custom, at night, of pushing one of the kitchen chairs against that door, and tilting it with the chair back under the doorknob, in such a way that anybody pushing it to get in would have made a dreadful clatter.

Polio has made a dreadful comeback in war-torn Somalia after six years – and it's the most serious outbreak in the world, right now.

"This is clearly a very intelligent, outstanding young lady who has made a rather dreadful mistake".

"This is clearly a very intelligent, outstanding young lady who has made a rather dreadful mistake". The judge went so far as to note that Milner's references from her employer were "exceptional", but wasn't impressed with texts that showed her seeming to brag about her little drug operation.

"Most of the time you think, 'this is dreadful, I've made a complete mess of this'".