Sentence examples for that was dreadful from inspiring English sources
Tony Nicklinson, for example, had a condition that was dreadful but not terminal.
He hammered the point in "The Great War" and other books, including "Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War" (1989), a relentless chronicle of everything that was dreadful or repugnant about the soldiering experience in World War II, and a memoir, "Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic" (1996).
"But that was dreadful – we had three rooms and a sort of kitchen, but no bathroom; we had an outside lavatory.
The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that.
The hype is that Mr. Cowell is outrageously nasty, but his typical comment is something as bland as "That was dreadful" -- not exactly a scathing personal attack, though it does sound more ominous with a clipped English accent.
It is not the photo opps themselves that are dreadful, so much as the unease they betray with the very essence of democratic leadership – the task of speaking for and to the people.
CORSET: That's dreadful, darling.
That's dreadful to contemplate.
And that's dreadful, I think".
