more terrible
Example Sentences
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The more "terrible" the joke, he says the better.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
It’s often when you don’t show all of that, what you imagine is much more terrible.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024
“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,” James Baldwin wrote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
Each has a secret, or several secrets, some more terrible than others, and in the way of plays like this, all will be revealed before the ship docks.
From New York Times • May 22, 2022
“You called me—It was my brother. It was his voice I heard. He’s dead. You called me—you called me Therem? I....This is more terrible than I had thought.”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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