terrible
Example Sentences
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How would you feel if your office had backed-up toilets, terrible food, and virtually no days off?
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Given the terrible toll on communities and frontline workers, we are encouraged that the approved Ebola vaccine Ervebo... could help reduce severe illness and deaths."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Total domination attacked this fragile construction at its root, making human beings superfluous and sweeping them into an ideological process whose terrible boast was, in her phrase, “everything is possible.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It was terrible, I have no words to explain the pain," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
But his smile was a terrible one, and his eyes were wild.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 8
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