People no longer able to buy our diamonds... Before those had been merely words, now they were a dreadful possibility.

His imaginative mind raced with all the dreadful possibilities.

And then, suddenly, a dreadful possibility flashed through my mind.

And another dreadful possibility occurred to me!

Apart from the dreadful possibility of his troops being detected other hazardous difficulties could occur as more than two thousand men tried to escape.

He had an anxious moment as a dreadful possibility occurred to him.

This is a dreadful possibility to be forced to explore.

Brian stared at her, heartsick, a dreadful possibility beginning to suggest itself to him.

Paul and Emily glanced around them, stunned by such a dreadful possibility.

Hard-hearted Robbie paid scant attention to this dreadful possibility, and shook his head a third time.