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.
• Though the weather wasn’t terrible for most of the game, the ball was wet at the start.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
• The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place.
  — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• That was what families did in 1942, with the shades drawn and the lights dimmed in the midst of a terrible war.
  — Charles Osgood, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The space behind the counter was narrow — a terrible place to die.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Most of them are getting stuff with syrups and things that are terrible for you.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 2 July 2024
• That’s it, more or less; the writing isn’t great, but far from terrible.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• It was left to Bibi Netanyahu to tell his parents the terrible news.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Three minutes later comes the sound of a terrible thud out front.
  — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
• For now, the Dolphins aren’t in terrible shape at the position.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• This board made a bit of noise, but nothing too terrible.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Jets’ defense can keep them in games for a while, but their offense is terrible.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The morale was terrible, people were being fired, the writing was on the wall that the ship was sinking.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• But the relatives of hers that know about her terrible death … will gain some peace from it.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Twice, Queen Anne tried to come over from Denmark, and there were these terrible storms.
  — Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• Biden had a terrible night, fumbled over his words at times, and seemed, well, very old.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 11 July 2024
• The Alexan, a hulking monster at the foot of the Katy Trail, is a good, or rather terrible, example of the form.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• My boss is terrible at his job and wastes the time and energy of the 100 people below him.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The film starts on board a ragtag pirate ship, back in the days when terrible pirates roamed the seven seas.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
• Time proves that even the best of us are capable of doing terrible things.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
• Over the years, many of the buildings at the former base fell into a terrible state of disrepair.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
• There are grudges, and wounds, and a terrible racist secret in the attic, as there is in much of American life.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• Waking up to the terrible news that our friend, and legend @tobykeith has passed away from cancer.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• Sit with that like a terrible Zen koan: Medicines are both too cheap and too expensive.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
• Food on the floor should not enter this terrible equation.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• This may be the golden age of union labor in Kentucky despite having those terrible statutes on the books.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
• Those who are naturally good at one fitness domain may be terrible at another, and vice versa.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024