How to Use terrible in a Sentence
terrible
adjective
- I have a terrible cold.
- The service at that restaurant is terrible.
- Traffic was held up by a terrible accident.
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The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place.
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Delisa Shannon,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2023
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That was what families did in 1942, with the shades drawn and the lights dimmed in the midst of a terrible war.
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Charles Osgood,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2024
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The space behind the counter was narrow — a terrible place to die.
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Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2023
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It was left to Bibi Netanyahu to tell his parents the terrible news.
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David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
14 Jan. 2024
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Three minutes later comes the sound of a terrible thud out front.
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Ryan Lillis,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Mar. 2024
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For now, the Dolphins aren’t in terrible shape at the position.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2024
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This board made a bit of noise, but nothing too terrible.
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Sharon Brandwein,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2024
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The Jets’ defense can keep them in games for a while, but their offense is terrible.
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Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Nov. 2023
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But the relatives of hers that know about her terrible death … will gain some peace from it.
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Kyle Melnick,
Washington Post,
30 May 2023
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The Alexan, a hulking monster at the foot of the Katy Trail, is a good, or rather terrible, example of the form.
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Mark Lamster,
Dallas News,
12 Apr. 2023
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My boss is terrible at his job and wastes the time and energy of the 100 people below him.
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Roxane Gay,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2024
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The film starts on board a ragtag pirate ship, back in the days when terrible pirates roamed the seven seas.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
30 May 2023
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Time proves that even the best of us are capable of doing terrible things.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2024
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Over the years, many of the buildings at the former base fell into a terrible state of disrepair.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2024
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There are grudges, and wounds, and a terrible racist secret in the attic, as there is in much of American life.
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Alessandra Codinha,
Vogue,
21 Nov. 2023
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Waking up to the terrible news that our friend, and legend @tobykeith has passed away from cancer.
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TIME,
6 Feb. 2024
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Sit with that like a terrible Zen koan: Medicines are both too cheap and too expensive.
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Matthew Herper,
STAT,
15 Aug. 2023
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This terrible lack of self-worth has plagued him for his whole life, while at the same time, a belief that this one thing will be a way to claim self-worth.
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Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 May 2023
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Food on the floor should not enter this terrible equation.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
27 July 2023
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This terrible news has made all of us sick and heartbroken.
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Cecil Joyce,
The Courier-Journal,
22 July 2023
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Every fiber of her being is living in this terrible sense of shame and guilt and regret.
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Nojan Aminosharei,
Harper's BAZAAR,
26 May 2023
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The property was in terrible shape, with holes in the ceiling and bad water damage.
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Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
2 Feb. 2024
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In all but the most extreme cases, this is terrible advice!
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Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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As hope for the missing dissolved, there were bursts of sorrow and anger, in terrible scenes that played out on what seemed like every block.
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Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Feb. 2023
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And why was her tribe so terrible at reading body language?
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
9 Mar. 2023
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Many, particularly on the right, bemoan the U.S. trade deficit and the supposedly terrible trade deals that the U.S. has agreed to over the years.
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John Gustavsson,
National Review,
10 Sep. 2023
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The whole thing is pretty serious and terrible and scary.
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Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
5 Apr. 2023
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