terrible

Example Sentences

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I’m more likely to recommend the novel with the infuriating protagonist or body-horror themes, or the show about terrible people being terrible together.

From Salon

The Detroit Lions produced a terrible display as they were dumped out of play-off contention in one of three eventful Christmas Day games in the NFL.

From BBC

“I thought we can make money if this place goes from terrible to bad,” said Bill Browder, an Anglo-American financier whose firm Hermitage Capital Management ran the biggest foreign investment fund in Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's terrible, it's a terrible atrocity," he said, adding that the wider community here were "very supportive".

From BBC

Endorphins are the brain's "happy chemicals" and are released both to reduce stress and pain and in response to pleasurable experiences, such as laughing with friends over a truly terrible Christmas cracker joke.

From BBC