Sentence examples for was too dreadful from inspiring English sources

It was too dreadful.

The crowds had been forewarned that to come by car was too dreadful to attempt.

But she shrugged the feeling off, because the prospect of sifting through the offerings on Craigslist was too dreadful.

When all was over and the dust cloud had lifted, the spectacle was too dreadful to describe.

A Russian Milosevic is too dreadful to contemplate.

If they do not, the impact of their decision may be too dreadful to contemplate.

She protested that marrying a divorced man would have been "too dreadful" to contemplate.

The trip to Birmingham would be too dreadful, so I had asked Hobin to phone with his findings.

But the prospect of having to absorb 23m starving people while their own economy is in tatters is too dreadful to contemplate for most South Koreans.

THE costs of efforts to save the euro are justified by the claim that the alternative would be too dreadful to contemplate.

"It is too dreadful," she wrote of her slave-owning husband, Pierce, "to have those whom we love accomplices to this wicked­ness; it is too intolerable to find myself an involuntary accomplice to it".