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Example sentences for: dreadful

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

1. Contemptible, downright, great, notable/notably, outrageous/outrageously, treasured, vexatious: A fxxx'n terrible [American], fxxxing dreadful [British], crime!
A species of tick, the animal that Pliny the Elder called one of the foulest and nastiest creatures that be should be known to most residents of the northeast coast of the US, because Ixodes dammini , the deer tick, is the vector for another dreadful animal--the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi , which causes borreliosis Lyme (disease)--the fastest-growing infectious disease in the US after AIDS.
This book has three elements: a description of the terrible present state and future prospects of the American economy, a theory of the causes of that dreadful condition, and a prescription for rescuing us.
Ken Maginnis of the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party declared the bomb "a dreadful crime against humanity."
Graves in the Royal Naval Cemetery (near the dockyard at the other end of Bermuda) offer testimony to some of the individuals who succumbed to this dreadful disease.