dreadfully

Example Sentences

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Rebounding from dreadfully depressing injury news to knock out the NBA’s best rebounding team?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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

Jane and daughter Megan took part in 2019, but she admitted they did "dreadfully", adding: "We lost £155."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

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

Their own breath seemed dreadfully noisy, but there was no other noise.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis