direful

How To Use direful In A Sentence

• Let us hope the direful upheaving, which is now felt throughout the Union, is the earthquake that will bury it forever. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
• The Road could be classified as science-fiction for the near-future setting and prophetic look of a world turned to ash, and it could be classified as horror for the suspense and direful moments the characters must endure -- two genres I'm sure McCarthy would prefer to keep at a distance from his work. Rabid Reads: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
• Glanced over her shoulder, struggled to frown direfully. The Ideal Bride
• He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air… The Haunted
• a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
• Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors.
• The Hammal, direfully wrath, threatened to shoot him upon the spot, and it was not without difficulty that I calmed the storm. First footsteps in East Africa
• This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject. Chapter 9
• Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. The Ideal Bride
• The resultant blur is an emblem of the paranoid experience, a concurrence of simultaneous direful events.