I dare say not," said Angela; "it must be a dreadful thing indeed to have so much beer, and to be able to drink so little.
Suppose we was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down to the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!
This made me think how many people I had known, were buried between the church-door and the churchyard gate, and what a dreadful thing it would be to have to pass among them and know them again, so earthy and unlike themselves.
That it was a dreadful thing to live in families and have dislikes, and not give satisfactions.
To bray one in a mortar is a dreadful thing, to bray one there with a pestle; and yet it seems a whip, a mortar, and a pestle is the way.
He stood in awe of God's Word, durst not do it, because he kept in remembrance what a dreadful thing it was to rebel against God's Word.
Put all together, and it is a dreadful thing to live and die in this transgression.
I have never even thought of such a dreadful thing!
Of course Harrington would not do such a dreadful thing.
Yet somehow he had succeeded in impressing her with the feeling that she was pledged to him in sacred honor, and that it would be a dreadful thing to break a tie like that.
David, stern, true, pained and appreciative, suddenly awakened to what a dreadful thing he had done.
How could she think of such things when Kate had done such a dreadful thing, and David was suffering so terribly?
But it would be a dreadful thing in the aunts’ opinion for a woman, and especially a young one, to take a long walk in the woods alone, in winter too, and with no object whatever in view but a walk!
Ah, what a dreadful thing--and so many of your poor soldiers who suffered!
I saw the river rising every hour; the moaning wind became a dreadful thing to hear as the day waxed and waned.
Now this was a dreadful thing to hear, and one which sent every man in the church leaping to his feet--those of them who could stand, for there were many who could not.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreadful thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
