A special, unique friend whose death is a dreadful loss to all who knew him.
Nothing could adequately convey the horror, the dreadful loss, the ravages of what was yet to come.
He was a key player and was a dreadful loss.
It would be a dreadful loss of face all around if he didn't meet the politicians.
She wondered why no adult ever commented on this dreadful loss of acuity.
He could live without Thargor, work his way back up with another character, despite the dreadful loss of all the time he'd put in.
The Knicks spent practice today trying to shake off any lingering effects from the dreadful 92-76 loss.
It is rather that I remember him before all this happened, and see what a dreadful loss it is.
Such a terrible fate, and such a dreadful loss to us all.
"The loss of a father is a dreadful loss," my mother wrote.