Sentence examples for like a dreadful from inspiring English sources

At first it looked like a dreadful decision.

This may still sound like a dreadful problem.

If nothing else, it just sounds like a dreadful environment in which to work.

Mr Baldizón, who is currently in second place, looks like a dreadful candidate.

But the film sticks with you, like a dreadful dream or a spider in the bedclothes.

September with the Mets and Valentine is playing out like a dreadful late-night movie.

Yet throughout, Verdi often sets some grim text, like Jacopo's "A dreadful and bloody war they will wage against me," to incongruously cheery and upbeat music.

Lowlight: What seemed like continuation of a dreadful run, in fact, ended up benefiting the Kings.

"I thought either it would be a smash hit, like a Eugene O'Neill play," he observes, "or a dreadful failure, like — like a Eugene O'Neill play.

Divorce is a dreadful, death-like ending -- for some of us.

The slow approach of Emma's death is like the tolling of a dreadful bell.