Example sentences for: dreadful

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

  • His suggested massive increase in military spending, the biggest in two decades, is a dreadful way to strengthen America, says Pentagon analyst Franklin Spinney.

  • 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.

  • Let's face it: The world is a mess, life is basically futile, and other people are pretty dreadful and don't like you much anyhow.

  • 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."

  • The conditions were too dreadful.


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