- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked.
- a dreadful storm.
- a fearful glance.
- a fearful howling.
- a frightful mistake.
- a terrible curse.
- an awful risk.
- cast fearful glances at the large dog.
- cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then.
- dire news.
- fearful of criticism.
- fearful slum conditions.
- horrendous explosions shook the city.
- in a timorous tone.
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was.
- the awful war.
- the dread presence of the headmaster.
- timorous little mouse.