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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'terrible sight' is grammatically and stylistically correct and could be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an unpleasant or shocking scene. For example: After touring the town that had been devastated by the tornado, we saw a terrible sight - homes and buildings destroyed, debris everywhere, and people so distraught.
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It's a truly terrible sight.
Crolla made a terrible sight.
It was a terrible sight, it was a terrible loss".
"There were a lot of terrible sight lines".
I had seen nothing but fear & hunger--an overriding hunger--and it was a terrible sight".
"Riot police clearing the steps of St Paul's Cathedral was a terrible sight," Mr. Fraser said Tuesday.
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Whitman, however, saw the dead at the Battle of Fredericksburg firsthand — and what terrible sights he saw.
Terrible sights began to put an end to Townsend's pacifism, though not his idealism.
In the 1860's, Matthew Brady and his teams of photographers reached the battlefield first, recording the terrible sights that would haunt the veterans and their families: the bloated corpses, the burning cities of the South, the trees of great forests mowed down like matchsticks under withering fire.
A child could be terrible at sight reading but have a nice sound.
San Juan's mayor called the sight "terrible and abominable".
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