Donna Ignazia was indeed in a terrible state; I had not repulsed her, but I was perfectly inactive.
The fright you gave her has arrested her periods; she is in a terrible state.
I was in a terrible state, and my sharpest pang was that I began to experience a certain abatement of my vigors, the natural result of advancing years.
I pretended to have forgotten something in my room, and going to my Hebe's chamber I found her in a terrible state, choking with sobs.
The poor Shagird, whom we had to threaten with a severe chastisement if he did not accompany us, was in a terrible state.
I do not mean as regards footpads and robbers reports concerning them are always greatly exaggerated; but the rivers are in a terrible state.
I say, Chumbley, old fellow, we must be getting into a terrible state of mind to go on like this without troubling ourselves about our chaplain--Here comes the doctor.
Surely now that she needs all his sympathy and love--now that she must be in a terrible state of suffering--he could not be so base as to forsake her!
There was a terrible state of fright at first, when you refused my hand.
So said Dick, and as he spoke the two Zulu boys came running up in a terrible state of excitement.
At last, when Jack felt that he could no longer plant one leg before the other, there was the bright glow of the fire at the little camp, where they found Mr Rogers in a terrible state of uneasiness at their prolonged absence.
Madame is in a terrible state; I have not seen her like this since her husband died.
The old lady was in a terrible state of excitement, and in spite of rheumatic pains was walking up and down the room, gesticulating wildly, and striking her crutch-handled stick on the floor.
Her beautiful face was bedewed with tears, and she was in a terrible state of excitement.
Poor little lady, if it was her brother who had been killed she must be somewhere inside those white walls in a terrible stateof grief.
She was in a terrible state of alarm, almost beside herself; her eyes were terrified, and she clutched my arm so tightly whilst she was imploring me to stay that her finger nails left deep marks.
But Jassim did not come, and in his nervous condition Mr. Scarlett worked himself into a terrible state of agitation lest he had disappeared, and was, even now, preparing violent measures to regain the bracelet.
You are in a terrible state; you will lose your reason, if you go on with this kind of life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrible state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
