Sentence examples for was pretty dreadful from inspiring English sources

Yet part of us secretly yearns for some Life on Mars era that in reality was pretty dreadful.

The couch that she'd found in Pennsylvania was "pretty dreadful," which, for her purposes, made it perfect.

According to Reinhart-Rogoff, that counterfactual was pretty dreadful"."I voted for President Obama and had very high hopes for him.

"My poetry was pretty dreadful, so exaggerated," he told Pat McGilligan, the author of "Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s".

In 1980, Silhouette accepted "Irish Thoroughbred," which was pretty dreadful, too ("You impudent little wench!" "You great thundering blackguard!"), but possessed flashes of the spiritedness and humor that would define her success.

England's bowlers learnt from their day one mistakes Stuart Broad exempt, England's bowling on Thursday was pretty dreadful, and the decision from Alastair Cook to throw on Adam Lyth in a bid to get anything out of a flat track.

I've been pretty dreadful overall this week.

Most fan theories are pretty dreadful.

But aside from that, it's pretty dreadful.

"Look, life is pretty dreadful most of the time.

It's pretty dreadful, looking back on it.