He was in the same dreadful plight he'd been when his awareness had last ebbed away to chthonic darkness while he was most effortfully fleeing Death's skinny sister Pain.

I didn't want to experience his dreadful plight.

Something needs to be done about this dreadful plight carers find themselves in; lonely, isolated, worn out and poor.

We are now in a dreadful plight, and I fear that unless we get food this will be our last day's journey.

He sends his henchman, Beadle Bamford, to summon her to his home, "[Blaming] himself for her dreadful plight."

Zara, the fourteen year-old sister of Laria, Thian and Rojer, becomes emotionally involved with what she sees as the queen's dreadful plight and imprisonment.

Could it be a sign of the impersonal presence which had saved her from a far less dreadful plight?

So Jurgis went out into the streets, in a most dreadful plight.

Yet he was in a plight--a curious and even dreadful plight, when he came to realize it.

The wagons, horses, and vehicles, in a dreadful plight, followed the herd-guard.