How to Use terrible in a Sentence

terrible

adjective

• I have a terrible cold.
• The service at that restaurant is terrible.
• Traffic was held up by a terrible accident.
• Though the weather wasn’t terrible for most of the game, the ball was wet at the start.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
• The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place.
  — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• That was what families did in 1942, with the shades drawn and the lights dimmed in the midst of a terrible war.
  — Charles Osgood, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The space behind the counter was narrow — a terrible place to die.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• First, the Bengals were terrible and the Broncos had the best run defense in the league.
  — Jason Hoffman, The Enquirer, 6 May 2022
• The refs need to do a better job, that’s terrible on their end.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Those in the latter camp are nasty — terrible and stupid!
  — Dan Bekerman, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
• Most of them are getting stuff with syrups and things that are terrible for you.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 2 July 2024
• The woman thought that this was terrible, like this was nasty.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• That’s it, more or less; the writing isn’t great, but far from terrible.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• It was left to Bibi Netanyahu to tell his parents the terrible news.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Marissa and Ramses went from a sure thing to a terrible breakup in the last batch of Love is Blind episodes.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 24 Oct. 2024
• And that was for the first three years, and every offer was just terrible.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• This means action movies, where bad guys do terrible things, and the hero tracks them down and wipes them out.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2022
• Or does the exception just prove how terrible the rule has been?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 July 2022
• In this dream, the Conqueror saw that the end of the world of men will begin with a terrible winter coming from the North.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• Three minutes later comes the sound of a terrible thud out front.
  — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
• For now, the Dolphins aren’t in terrible shape at the position.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• This board made a bit of noise, but nothing too terrible.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Jets’ defense can keep them in games for a while, but their offense is terrible.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The morale was terrible, people were being fired, the writing was on the wall that the ship was sinking.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• The offense was terrible once again in a big game, and the defense allowed lots of points once again in a big game.
  — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
• But the relatives of hers that know about her terrible death … will gain some peace from it.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Twice, Queen Anne tried to come over from Denmark, and there were these terrible storms.
  — Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• Biden had a terrible night, fumbled over his words at times, and seemed, well, very old.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 11 July 2024
• The Eagles having their way in the trenches has produced a sentiment that the Chiefs had a terrible offensive line.
  — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
• And both situations can, of course, be traced directly to the same source: years of terrible leadership by the commissioners and university presidents that end up hurting the athletes — and passing the cost of doing business onto the fans.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025