Sentence examples for told dreadful from inspiring English sources

Yes people were carrying, and told, dreadful stories of watching loved ones die.

Jones.John Murray; 505 pages; £25MATILDA, who "told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes", is one of Hilaire Belloc's most enduring heroines.

Now that all 49 of the dead have been identified, and their families told the dreadful news, Orlando will start to begin the long process of grieving.

Geographical features and major battles are marked and named, and plummeting temperatures on the return journey are shown along the bottom.The chart tells the dreadful story with painful clarity: in 1812, the Grand Army set out from Poland with a force of 422,000; only 100,000 reached Moscow; and only 10,000 returned.

The other evening, cycling across the park surrounding the Imperial War Museum (formerly the asylum known as Bedlam), I was hailed by a passerby who recognised me: "How's it going with the vape, Will?" he called out, and since I'd just finished smoking a cigarette and contemplating my grim new addictive dispensation, I stopped to tell him: "Dreadful.

It's a story "told in verse" — dreadful verse.

Mr. Epstein, I am sure, must have been very disappointed with me when I told him the dreadful news.

"I tried to play it light, and I said it was absolutely dreadful," he told me.

"We're not heroes and we never wanted to be," Luz told Libération, about the dreadful strain of working since the attacks.

From the instant that Ms. Clooney heard it she thought it was dreadful and told Mr. Miller she would not sing it but He insisted.

"It is just not what you expect, somebody to walk down the street and get murdered - and at this time of year as well, it's just dreadful," she told the Sun.