Example sentences for: dreadful

How can you use “dreadful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A dress in any bright single color tends to be great; two colors in several patchy sections tends to be dreadful, especially when mixed with patches of bare skin.

  • Of these, only the Synfuels Corp. vote and the mining vote were clearly dreadful.

  • Some of the products of this boom have been unsurprisingly dreadful (Remember The Critic ? Duckman ?).

  • What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.

  • In the published piece, the editor, Kuttner, improved on my drab title, but also added a dreadful subtitle: "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution Controversy."


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