How to Use dreadful in a Sentence

dreadful

1 of 2 adjective

• Those children have such dreadful manners.
• Her performance was absolutely dreadful.
• Can the Chicago Cubs build off it to close a dreadful May?
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
• The hosts are 4-for-8 in the second half after a dreadful first half of shooting.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2023
• At the golden hour, the corn stalks gleamed and the onset of fall seemed a little less dreadful.
  — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• WhatsApp has had a great 2021—despite its dreadful start to the year.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• But Rangers pitchers have been dreadful at that aspect of the game.
  — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2022
• It’s been a dreadful year — OK, few years — for romcoms.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• The thought that the Orioles could spend the next couple of months with none of those arms taking the mound for them is a dreadful one.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2022
• Not all of the replies were sarcastic, dark or dreadful.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
• The same investors who thought the stock market was such a dreadful place last year have changed their tune.
  — Michael Joseph, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• And Quinn, for the rare time, is not dreadful annoyance to us as readers.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• On a night where the special teams were dreadful, the biggest disaster came with 4:41 left in the game.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2022
• It's been a dreadful year for bankers who specialize in IPOs.
  — Alex Frangos, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• After a dreadful start, the Pittsburgh Steelers have won three of four.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Dec. 2022
• Once again this winter, Lopez is feeling a dreadful sense of déjà vu.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• Wearing a suit in summer doesn’t have to be a dreadful affair.
  — Bernd Fischer, Men's Health, 20 July 2022
• That’s why the dreadful wait has given him a new perspective.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Losing Warren to the IL is another hit for the dreadful Reds bullpen.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 July 2022
• If that sounds dreadful, pay up for a preferred seat like Mrs. Keeler did.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• Sunday’s win over the Browns was a bit of a silver lining on a dreadful, gloomy and cold winter day.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• In addition, Los Angeles has been dreadful on the ground and will now face the best rush defense in the league.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
• Our overtime record was dreadful last year because of it.
  — Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2022
• That was all before the dreadful things that happened on 7th of October, which seems a long time ago.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• She’s joined in the raunchy fun by Billy Porter’s character Ocean, who leads the school’s choir into song about the dreadful years ahead.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• There have been months when the lineup is so dreadful, a wish list of alternatives can be fun to write.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The Aztecs survived 80-75 after trailing late in Laramie, and the Cowboys have gone back to being dreadful.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• Melton, meanwhile, entered the game mired in a dreadful slump, with just one hit in 13 regional at-bats.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 6 June 2022
• After soaring in Biden's first year in office, markets are off to a dreadful start to 2022.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• Any one of these outcomes would be dreadful; any combination of them would be a historic disaster.
  — Ehud Barak, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024

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dreadful

2 of 2 noun

• The comical bumps up against the chaotic, the domestic beats back the dreadful.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
• Like many people who live in the suburbs, there’s no burning desire to get back on a bus or train and waste two to three hours going back and forth in a dreadful, soul-sucking commute to the city every day.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• The Rangers just completed their fourth consecutive losing season and packed a whole lot of dreadful into just 60 games.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
• For many people who live in the suburbs, there’s no burning desire to get back on a bus or train and waste two to three hours going back and forth in a dreadful, soul-sucking commute to the city each and every day.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• But the Blazers minus Anfernee Simons in the lineup are next-level dreadful.
  — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2022
• Only blue shells in Mario Kart games produce more pained utterances of swear words amongst users of interactive software than that dreadful, infuriating wiggle mode.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2020
• The comical bumps up against the chaotic, the domestic beats back the dreadful.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
• Like many people who live in the suburbs, there’s no burning desire to get back on a bus or train and waste two to three hours going back and forth in a dreadful, soul-sucking commute to the city every day.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• The Rangers just completed their fourth consecutive losing season and packed a whole lot of dreadful into just 60 games.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
• For many people who live in the suburbs, there’s no burning desire to get back on a bus or train and waste two to three hours going back and forth in a dreadful, soul-sucking commute to the city each and every day.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• But the Blazers minus Anfernee Simons in the lineup are next-level dreadful.
  — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2022
• Only blue shells in Mario Kart games produce more pained utterances of swear words amongst users of interactive software than that dreadful, infuriating wiggle mode.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2020

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