terrible thing

collocation in English

meaningsofterribleandthing

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terrible
adjective
uk
/ˈter.ə.bəl/us
/ˈter.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant or serious or of ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofterribleandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofterrible thing

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This is aterriblethingto work with.
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And what aterriblethingit is that they do.
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It is often said that a mind is aterriblethingto waste.
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Thisterriblethingwas brought to my attention, with a smirk, by my own graduate student.
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It's just aterriblething!
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Moreover, although there is no doubt that witnessing the executions was aterriblething, the powers of a witch may have been equally terrible.
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Theterriblethingwas that such was the distress of his wife that they went.
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It is aterriblethingto ask a local authority to define this in some way.
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The truth is that this is a very sad story, because aterriblethinghas happened.
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I did not say that it was aterriblethingto do.
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It is aterriblethingto see what the local council has done to it.
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That is aterriblethingif it is done on any scale.
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If they do, this will be aterriblethingfor all of us.
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It is aterriblethingfrom that point of view.
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That, to me, is a mostterriblething.
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If it may mean a fall in prices, that is not aterriblething.
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Cancer is aterriblethingto worry about.
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That is a rash andterriblethingto say.
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Perhaps that is aterriblethingto say, but it is true.
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I thought that this was aterriblething.
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