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
Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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