Sentence examples for the dreadful thing from inspiring English sources

"Poll was the naughtiest one of the family," she wrote in her 1975 children's novel, "The Peppermint Pig," "and the dreadful thing happened on one of her naughty days; a dark day of thick, mustardy fog that had specks of grit in it she could taste on her tongue".

The dreadful thing about the legislative log jams that have confronted both Houses because of the intransigence of their members is not that funding for such trivial things as the FAA has been delayed at great cost to the taxpayers, but that it has cut into the members' recess time.

Great for giving to the stingy sister-in-law who is absolutely houseproud and will feel hidebound to put the dreadful thing on display.

Yet we have decided to create in the city a kind of imaginary geography of fear and safety that will somehow make us safer from It — from the next attack, of course, from the Other Shoe, the Dreadful Thing that we all await.

Yet we have decided to create in the city a kind of imaginary geography of fear and safety that will somehow make us safer from It from the next attack, of course, from the Other Shoe, the Dreadful Thing that we all await.

I tackled Blair in interviews, and am no apologist for the dreadful things that happened.

At the very least, the study represents a statistically valid attempt to calculate the dreadful things that have happened, and continue to happen.

Some of the dreadful things I have had said to me are not worthy of the status and statute of this chamber.

"It was during that football match that, after all the dreadful things he had experienced, they were mown down by machine-gun fire [from German aircraft].

But Gates has spent a lifetime immersed in the history of African-Americans and all the dreadful things done to them.

"At boarding school I was always taught," he wrote in "I'm in Love," "not to reveal what I really thought, / Nor ever once let my eyes betray / The dreadful things I longed to say".