dreadfulness

Example Sentences

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Yet the performance is mostly one of heartbreaking reserve; her occasional voiceover comes in short, spare declarations from Carol’s diary on the latest dreadfulness to afflict the town.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

“Apparently I was ready to confront the dreadfulness called me, and I prevailed. I never turned back. Every day I worked on some part of my screwed-up life until the anxiety dropped away,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Other centerpieces arrived to the Cubs courtesy of the high draft picks that the team earned through its years of calculated dreadfulness.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2016

The Times reports that it has "taken some days for the full dreadfulness" of what happened there "to percolate" into public consciousness.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2012

“And now I hear in your voice that you have it too. I feel wings over this house. I feel a dreadfulness coming.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck