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How to use the word terrible in a Sentence?

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In 2023, we should move forward to ratify the ERA with all due haste, because if you look at the terrible things happening to women’s rights in this country … women in America have far fewer rights today than they did even year ago.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
11 months ago

So, we’re using a foreign company that is owned by Venezuelans who are close to – were close to (Hugo) Chávez, are now close to (Nicolás) Maduro, have a history. They were founded as a company to fix elections, they have a terrible record, and they are extremely hackable.

– Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The results of it are terrible, but I will tell you that we do go to wrong addresses from time to time.

– Chief Hebbe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every one of these great bursts of euphoria, the great bubbles with overpriced markets … has been followed by a recession, the recessions are mild if everybody does everything right and there [are] no complications. They are terrible if people get everything wrong.

– Jeremy Grantham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Drano is not a covert poisoning agent, it’s got a crazy terrible taste, it burns, your eyes start watering.

– Scott Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So we reached out to (Wahl) with a few questions, hoping he might have some time to give us some quick answers, he gave us voluminous responses to every single question that were so helpful. Putting the Trent story together, he was just so generous with his time. It’s a really, really terrible loss.

– Brendan Hunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like to begin tonight’s proceeding differently than perhaps any other event of such magnitude, on behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It felt awful. I mean it felt terrible because I knew that I was bullied, intimidated, and coerced into saying that just to keep my job and stay at the company.

– Abby Grossberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing, law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community. We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff.

– Covenant School

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a terrible crime, their lives could have ended at this crossroads, but luckily they managed to survive.

– Serhii Bolvinov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My estimate is about 100,000. It’s going to be havoc, you can’t just think about the direct impact of the shaking, you must also think about what will follow the shaking. There will be looting, fires, epidemics. It’s going to be terrible.

– Celal Sengor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has been a horrible three months. I have been in terrible pain.

– Rheba Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prestwick is a really terrible place to store an airplane, because it’s cold and wet and rainy and moist, not somewhere you would plan to keep them for a long time. Maybe they were just planning to fix them, but then the other events happened.

– Connor Diver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see heart patients that come in with terrible histories, multiple myocardial infarction, sometimes bypass surgery, many stents and they say, ‘Doctor, I’ve tried multiple statins, but whenever I take a statin, my muscles hurt, or they’re weak. I can’t walk upstairs. I just can’t tolerate these drugs,’ we do need alternatives for these patients.

– Steven Nissen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The smell was terrible and made it very hard to breathe, i was coughing a lot for a good two hours after.

– Joseph Fleck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we go through every day because of what happened is terrible. There is light, there is positivity. You just have to go chase it. Santa Fe, I’m not stopping. I got all the motivation behind me. I’ve got all of you guys behind me, what a blessing this really is.

– Trey Louis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Buying stuff just for the sake of it is terrible for the environment( and our wallets !) , it also sends the wrong message to these big-box retailers that consumers just want more, more, more. That’s why it’s up to us to choose wisely when it comes to our purchase decisions.

– John Pabon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Using nonmonogamy to fix a relationship is as effective as having a baby to fix a relationship — it’s a terrible idea, you need a strong and healthy relationship to make the transition to nonmonogamy.

– Rebecca Sokoll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It cost us a lot in lost revenue. Normally we do up of $ 3 million a year in gross revenue. Last year it was $ 600,000, it was just terrible.

– Richard Richter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a terrible crisis. We should be doing everything we can to give every single one of these patients the best chance of survival, it’s heartbreaking, and we must do better.

– Laura Bray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mold situation in there is terrible. I can barely breathe, i don’t have a choice… It’s here or on the street.

– Nicole Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The terrible spill now is, of course, a coincidence. But it plays in our minds like life imitating art, which was imitating life, and on and on, because, as DeLillo suggests in ‘White Noise’ as well, we have unfortunately become too acquainted with the mediated language and enactment of disaster.

– Jesse Kavadlo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That means the food’s not coming in, hence you get so much malnutrition (that) has led to this terrible catastrophe.

– Fiona Watson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My mom was asleep when my dad woke up to her going into cardiac arrest and she was unresponsive for quite a while, my sister gave her CPR until the ambulance arrived. She saved her life. Even though she doesn’t like to take credit for this terrible situation, she absolutely saved her life, followed by the critical job performed by the paramedics who arrived and were able to restore a heartbeat.

– Jessica Pegula

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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