Example sentences for: dreadfully

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

  • 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?

  • We have here a delightfully constructed catch-22: if you don't study your grammar you're uneducated; if you do, you've been exposed to a proper education by your kindly school system; but when you use one of your grammar book's dreadfully improper constructions as a model, you place yourself in the class of the obviously simple-minded, whose opinions are irrelevant.

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

  • That clashes dreadfully.

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


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