DREADFULLY in a Sentence

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244 example sentences for DREADFULLY, such as:

1. He told me a dreadful story.
2. They told us the dreadful news.
3. How dreadfully sad that must be.
4. Yes, so dreadfully afraid of it.
5. It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.

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 Meanings and Examples of DREADFULLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dreadfully
 ad.  terribly; with alarm; fearfully
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully," began Meg, whose gloves were a tender point with her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
2  I wanted it dreadfully, and wished I was her with all my might.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
3  It's a dreadfully unjust world, said Meg bitterly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
4  She put it away, but it haunted her, not delightfully as a new dress should, but dreadfully like the ghost of a folly that was not easily laid.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5  John, dear, I'm ashamed to show you my book, for I've really been dreadfully extravagant lately.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
6  It must have been dreadfully hard, after working so long and setting your heart on selling your own pretty things.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
7  The Vaughns hope to meet us in Rome next winter, and I shall be dreadfully disappointed if they don't, for Grace and I are great friends, and the boys very nice fellows, especially Fred.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
8  It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
9  Now she seemed to have on the Professor's mental or moral spectacles also, for the faults of these poor stories glared at her dreadfully and filled her with dismay.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
10  How dreadfully sad that must be.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
11  But during the first year he over-worked himself dreadfully.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
12  I may tell you that there is something that is called, in business, quarterly interest, and another thing called payment in installments, and it is always so dreadfully difficult to manage them.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
13  Yes, so dreadfully afraid of it.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
14  But now I am quite alone in the world--my life is so dreadfully empty and I feel so forsaken.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
15  Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied, "Surely there can be no occasion for exposing him so dreadfully."
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The room is in dreadful disorder, you have no chance to find that box.
17  They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
18  When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
19  Lord knows where he dug up that dreadful story.
20  The dreadful events of 11th September have filled people throughout the world with a revulsion for terrorism, whatever its aims.
21  It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.
22  The film was dreadful - all spooks and vampires.
23  I can't get that dreadful moment/image out of my mind.
24  I cannot imagine what to do in this dreadful situation.
25  They told us the dreadful news.
26  He told me a dreadful story.
27  The party are dreading a repeat performance of their defeat in the last election.
28  He's dreading his driving test - he's sure he's going to fail.
29  I've got an interview tomorrow and I'm dreading it.
30  Ben Rogers hove in sight presently -- the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.