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Example sentences for "dreadfully"

Lexicographically close words:
dreaded; dreadest; dreadeth; dreadful; dreadfull; dreadfulness; dreading; dreadless; dreadnaught; dreadnaughts
  1. These successes, however, were dreadfully counterbalanced by the advance of Hannibal into Italy, and the decisive victories which he obtained in the very heart of the Roman territories.

  2. Her heart felt very warmly toward him, and she would have felt dreadfully confused had not Wilhelm, with characteristic good feeling, declined the invitation to be present.

  3. It is a shame, for monsieur has never done her any harm, and it would not be quite so bad if she only let out her vile temper before us, but she slanders monsieur to outsiders and gives him a dreadfully bad name.

  4. The young lovers were, of course, dreadfully unhappy, and vowed to be true to one another.

  5. She is dreadfully ill," the latter whispered.

  6. Makes Sallie look dreadfully growed up," sighed the troubled woman.

  7. I heard from Sallie's mother by this morning's post, and the poor woman is dreadfully worked up about the runaways.

  8. They have run away and their folks are dreadfully worried.

  9. Nan is dreadfully close-mouthed," agreed Cora, who was a weak girl and quite under Linda's influence.

  10. She tells me that her ankles swell dreadfully sometimes, and that is awful for a young girl like her.

  11. I'm dreadfully worried about the poor thing," concluded Nan, with moist eyes.

  12. I asked, dreadfully alarmed; "may I read it?

  13. For myself, I could not understand how any one could help dancing with spirit to that inspiring music; and the only drawback to my enjoyment was that the rooms were so very full that one was dreadfully squeezed and knocked about.

  14. I know at the time we considered it to be a very good, although a dreadfully disrespectful, joke towards those ladies.

  15. It was a dreadfully formal affair, and I think I would rather have been in school.

  16. I should miss them dreadfully if I was to lose them.

  17. You look dreadfully hot; have you been running?

  18. I am dreadfully nervous now; I am not trusding anybody.

  19. But he's not a good husband to me--last night he hit me, and he was so dreadfully abusive.

  20. His face blanched, for he had no idea I was armed.

  21. In order not to enter into the light, I made an excuse that my engine was not running properly, unlocked the "bonnet" and tinkered with it until the official came out to inspect me.

  22. I came out here to-day from London on one big thing, and in an hour or two I'm going back on another!

  23. She was dreadfully sick, and had the cholera awfully bad.

  24. He spoke very kind but very stern, and I was dreadfully frightened.

  25. I was dreadfully frightened, and watched him carefully all day, but he seemed none the worse for a change in his diet.

  26. She was dreadfully frightened when she was finally caught, for she also knew it was not the hand that fondled her.

  27. He is very bad, has been dreadfully injured, but he may recover.

  28. I'm very sorry; very sorry; it was dreadfully clumsy of me.

  29. Go, of course, mama, though I will be dreadfully sorry not to have you here this evening.

  30. Everything without was so alluring, that indoors and duties grew dreadfully monotonous and tiresome.

  31. Olive was so dreadfully pale and still; and Beatrice was nearly at her wits end.

  32. But now I am quite alone in the world--my life is so dreadfully empty and I feel so forsaken.

  33. I may tell you that there is something that is called, in business, quarterly interest, and another thing called payment in instalments, and it is always so dreadfully difficult to manage them.

  34. We drank as much as we wanted and put the rest into our canteen, but we were greatly disappointed in not finding anything to eat, for we were dreadfully hungry and very short of provisions.

  35. Vain attempts were made to remove this fearful obstacle, during which my left hand was dreadfully cut by one of the blades of the chevaux de frise, but finding no success in that quarter, we were forced to retire for a time.

  36. So, by the help of his thread, he tried to mount upwards, but he could go such a little way, and hurt himself dreadfully when he tumbled back to earth again.

  37. His boots creaked dreadfully loud, but he was not frightened.

  38. In the kingdom in which we are now sitting lives a princess who is dreadfully clever.

  39. There was once a dreadfully wicked hobgoblin.

  40. I am dreadfully afraid of the people I care about being angry with me, though you and the rest of my family may not believe it, as I am supposed to have once been a wilful person," she returned unexpectedly.

  41. But you must let me take you home to Kent House now; Olive and Frieda are both dreadfully worried to know what has become of you.

  42. You know he is the only child and his mother and father are dreadfully rich.

  43. Anyhow he was dreadfully angry and unkind to me.

  44. Really, it hurt them dreadfully and I felt almost cruel for saying it.

  45. It would hurt him dreadfully to know that we are barred out of all the desirable places because he is an invalid.

  46. She was angry with herself because she could not chime in with the others, and thought with flaming cheeks that they must think her dreadfully stupid and unresponsive; just a bread-and-butter miss, not yet out of the nursery.

  47. And we got word that my oldest brother, Jack, had been dreadfully hurt in an accident at the mines where he was manager--that it had made him a cripple for life.

  48. Even the nicest looking may have had dreadfully sick tenants in them, and although there is a law requiring landlords to fumigate, and all that sort of thing, you can't be sure that it has been done as thoroughly as it should.

  49. Only I was afraid you'd think I was dreadfully stupid.

  50. She was sure Hester must be dreadfully tired with sauntering about so long.

  51. How did I dare to make so light of what has come so dreadfully true?

  52. Our affairs are all in such dreadfully perfect order, that I have not a stitch of work to do.

  53. I made him dreadfully jealous just now; I must relieve him as soon as possible.

  54. The Russian girl, dreadfully pale, leaned against the wall as though her limbs scarcely supported her.

  55. The child has been dreadfully frightened about you.

  56. The master proceeded to get into the boat, but the men repulsed him with kicks, blows, and hisses, swearing most dreadfully that if he attempted to come in, they would throw him overboard.

  57. That long passage is so dreadfully dark, and I saw something white at the end of it.

  58. I'm dreadfully sorry to be so stupid, but the more I want to talk, the more dumb I become.

  59. I am dreadfully disappointed, for it is just the sort of thing I should love, and if I had only an ordinary engagement I would put it off, but it is not.

  60. It had been delightful having his company, for it had seemed like a "bit of home," but he would have been dreadfully in the way in Paris, where the avowed business of the day was the purchase of clothes and fripperies.

  61. She said that I must come, whatever happened, for it was dreadfully important, but I have really not thought much about what it could be, for I am accustomed to receiving violent summonses which mean nothing at all.

  62. When wounded, however, or assailed by the hunter, he becomes a dangerous antagonist; and men have been dreadfully mutilated and torn on such occasions, escaping only with their lives.

  63. I let the customers beat me down; and then my father, who was a just man, but dreadfully severe, beat me.

  64. To send the boys to public schools and Oxford, the girls had to be really dreadfully pinched!

  65. It's dreadfully difficult to please them, really!

  66. For two years at least it was dreadfully hard work--but now--well!


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreadfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonizingly; atrociously; awfully; badly; bitterly; blatantly; cruelly; deadly; deathly; distressingly; dreadful; dreadfully; excessively; excruciatingly; extravagantly; flagrantly; frightfully; grievously; grimly; grossly; hideously; horribly; horridly; improperly; inexcusably; infamously; inordinately; intolerably; miserably; openly; outrageously; painfully; pesky; sadly; severely; snapping; sorely; spanking; terribly; terrifically; tremendously; unduly; very