Sentence examples for sort of dreadful from inspiring English sources

As if I was enacting some sort of dreadful personal slight against an ex-boyfriend or something".

He added, "You can't legislate to stop a switch flicking in someone's head and this sort of dreadful action taking place".

Maître Naud, who came into the case at this point and who is a Paris barrister with a high reputation, called it "a sort of dreadful game".

"It was quite difficult at first because we've got quite an active social life and we were going to parties and events and I had this sort of dreadful secret.

Mitt Romney came into this campaign looking at the sort of dreadful economic fundamentals that should all but guarantee his success.

It just didn't make sense to people that a couple so rich, good-looking, and successful could be involved in the sort of dreadful behavior that most of us have no trouble whatsoever associating with poor white trash.

"Oh, all sorts of dreadful, dreadful scandals, of course," he says.

It was not something she understood, merely some sort of explanation for a dreadful performance, shot through with excruciating mistakes, none worse that a smash virtually on top of the net that she somehow managed to miss.

Sort of fine, in a dreadful sort of way.

I was consumed with a surreal sense of Deja Vu, followed by a dreadful sort of panic that insisted, in my mind, that whatever was in front of me at the moment was the source of all of the horrible things about to happen to me.

He had these dreadful, banal sort of jokes.