dreadfully

Example Sentences

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So music breaks down barriers, as characters keep telling us in a dreadfully blunt script: “This isn’t the mill, this is the choral. And we’re all equal here.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The BBC approached Michael Ward at the Harrods headquarters and he said: "I am very dreadfully sorry for what has happened with Al Fayed."

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024

United started dreadfully and went into a rapid decline, somehow surviving until half-time as Spurs carved them open on countless occasions but could not add a second.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

Rarely in this series’ recent history has one club’s stock been so up, while the other’s has been so dreadfully down.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

“Well, I will, if Mother doesn’t mind. I want to learn some new songs, and my children need fitting up for the summer. They are dreadfully out of order and really suffering for clothes.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott