something terrible
Example Sentences
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The 2007 opening of FX’s groundbreaking legal drama “Damages,” in which Byrne’s young lawyer, Ellen Parsons, flees an uptown New York apartment building in which something terrible has clearly happened, sparked all manner of conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
“If something terrible happens, if it is an emergency, well, I’ll take a risk.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
After his unexpected shift into the macabre, when he "saw something terrible, I saw pound signs".
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
"Well," she said, "you are all those things, and more besides. Why did you keep me waiting like that? I thought something terrible had happened to you."
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
