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Example sentences for: dreadful

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I know, we do this all the time, we did it when Diana died, and we will surely do it again--but it seems mysterious to me that in the first year post-Monica, when so many reporters looked back in embarrassment and agreed that events and group-think had sucked us into dreadful vacuous coverage from which we felt unable to extricate ourselves, the same blind terror of losing audience share could have overtaken assignment editors again.
He thought it gave offense to the salmon industry, and he proposed to right this dreadful wrong.
Of these, only the Synfuels Corp. vote and the mining vote were clearly dreadful.
HBO is just as likely to serve up dreadful programming as any other channel.
It is a terrible thing to be dragged in front of the TV cameras and forced to admit that your own dreadful ineptitude led to horrible suffering, which is why I pray that none of you will ever have your divorce hearing televised.