Sentence examples for said dreadful from inspiring English sources

He had said dreadful things to his wife.

Someone speaks at such and such a university and says dreadful things and everyone says: 'Why isn't that mosque or university denying them a platform?' The defence is always the same; we didn't know".

Sir Ian said: "The dreadful death of Mr de Menezes is a watershed".

I turned to my husband and said, "Something dreadful has happened downtown".

Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women & Equalities, said: "These dreadful figures show why national action is desperately needed to tackle sexual violence.

Labour and Conservative figures criticised the salaries, which Nick Raynsford MP, Labour 's former construction minister, said were "dreadful".

Nevertheless, it took indignant phone calls from television viewers a few years back to discover that Goran Ivanisevic had said something dreadful in Croatian.

Perseo Quiroz Rendon, the director of Amnesty International Mexico, said: "The dreadful inefficiency in the criminal justice means we don't know why the violence has increased, or even exactly how bad it is".

He said the "dreadful discovery" of Hamzah's body was made after a police community support officer spoke to Ms Hutton and became concerned.

"Oh no," she says, "How dreadful".

You'll say, "Pretty dreadful, thanks," and laugh.