'It was a dreadful ordeal, but you will get over it.'

He said: 'As you will appreciate this has been a dreadful ordeal.

You poor thing, what a dreadful ordeal you must have suffered!

It was a dreadful ordeal and she shrank back against Mother.

It was after our dreadful ordeal with the Body Thief.

They'd clearly survived some dreadful ordeal, but their spirits were undaunted.

But it had been a dreadful ordeal for Helen.

"This is a dreadful ordeal for Sophia," she said.

Hugo himself, according to his father in a telephone interview on Thursday from the Swedish city of Helsingborg, went through a dreadful ordeal.

Perhaps you were moved by their dreadful ordeal?