Example sentences for: dreadfully

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

  • That clashes dreadfully.

  • Calling the script "dreadfully predictable" and a "cliché-hugging melodrama" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ), critics complain that it lacks the fun of two other recent dance movie successes, Shall We Dance?

  • I certainly haven't seen much recently of the prestige media's dreadfully sententious hand-wringing along the lines of "Should we be dignifying with our attention these allegations about presidential fondling, as detailed in the following 62-page special report (and make sure not to miss the amazing revelations from the alleged victim's college roommate about her attitudes toward oral sex!)

  • Culturebox is admittedly, as Edgar Allan Poe once wrote, "nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous."

  • Beyond the suspicion lay a Puritan sense that this was all dreadfully wrong.


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