Causing fear or dread or terror.
Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless.
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Examples for "terrible"
Examples for "terrible"
1The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
2Elizabeth blushed and looked grave; to her the matter seemed too terrible.
3His Eminence in scarlet is magnificent; his Eminence in gray is terrible.
4Torches flashed in the boats that put off in the terrible search.
5The news of the terrible insurrection of the catholics in Ireland followed.
1The awful in the natural forces, moral and material, seems his element.
2Southern Asia in general is the seat of awful images and associations.
3Language which disguises the awful reality of war is often standard practice.
4The road was in an awful state: it was deep in mud.
5Never before had there been so awful a crisis in Jewish history.
1We had reached a point where the dreadful partnership could not continue.
2It was happening; in a dreadful form of slow-motion it was happening.
3The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built.
4Those dreadful tragedies have relevance to what is happening in Ireland today.
5Nearly blind; dreadful pain; can do nothing to-day; no sleep last night.
1It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
2There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
3A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
4The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful.
5And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
1Then I finally ask the question to which I dread the answer.
2I've certainly never seen an interviewee approach the photoshoot with greater dread.
3Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
4I was struck with dread; the Queen then appeared in the balcony.
5Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
1My Dad was 'on duty' and received the dreaded call from work.
2It's that dreaded time of year again in the US tax time.
3The young Vito, however, felt a cold anger for the dreaded Fanucci.
4The dreaded acronym is, of course, SAC - Special Areas of Conservation.
5In company she dreaded contempt; and in solitude she only found anxiety.
1The words repeated in his mind, clear now, so clear-andso frightening.
2It was an all-too-brief escape from the frightening reality of her situation.
3A major criminal investigation is now under way into these frightening events.
4For the first time for anybody going into that situation, it's frightening.
5I've had a heart problem, so it was very difficult and frightening.
1They are at risk of human trafficking and horrific abuse and exploitation.
2I just hope we do the work to right this horrific wrong.
3Witnessing horrific health cases, one after the other, was a heartbreaking experience.
4So far in the 99th Tour de France, nothing horrific has happened.
5The video shows a horrific attack on a South African police officer.
1In those days a doctor's office could indeed be a fearsome place.
2The trailer must represent a large and fearsome change in their environment.
3She says however fearsome it might look, the axe is not sharp.
4Hizdahr's fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best.
5It felt right somehow that Butters was trading on their fearsome reputation.
1They're using that to gain political advantage out of a horrendous situation.
2Earlier, we had read about the horrendous conditions of orphanages in Romania.
3She was in Time City, in the middle of a horrendous mistake.
4The horrendous details of the case are a gift to conspiracy theorists.
5The 32-year-old Lynette Volschenk is the murdered victim of this horrendous crime.
1The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
2He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
3At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
4They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
5In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
1For foreign investors who held French banknotes the situation was particularly dire.
2All of this exacerbated the dire financial situation of the new government.
3It's not going to result in dire consequences, but it's not good.
4Wood said the United States wanted to help people in dire need.
5He said most people understood that the situation in Iraq was dire.
6On the production side Mexico's oil industry is in dire straits, however.
7The implications for the economy and Ireland's relations with Europe are dire.
8Either way, his current situation was even more dire than her own.
9The country's dire economic situation has caused shortages of food and medicine.
10And even despite that payment, the energy crisis in Zimbabwe is dire.
11Survival International, an indigenous tribe advocacy group, says the situation is dire.
12The situation is dire for those not eligible for government welfare payments.
13Ours is a dire situation and it is time to fight back.
14A spokesman for the Rio police force said the situation was dire.
15The major focus though should be on turning this dire situation around.
16After seven years, the show is in dire need of a change.
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