How to use "dreadful" in a sentence

'It was dreadful,' she had said

What were they all saying now? What was happening? What would I do if Frank came back to Manderley without Maxim? I thought again of that dreadful word - murder

It's been a dreadful shock to me,' Favell said

'What a dreadful thing illness is,' Colonel Julyan went on

But the sky in front of us was full of dreadful light

But then, a few weeks ago, she had begun to slip back into the dreadful condition in which she'd wallowed immediately after she'd received news of the accident

Nothing can ever make me forget that dreadful white hairy head with its two pointed ears