Sometimes they exacted a dreadful toll.

Its bombers took a dreadful toll of both warships and merchantmen.

That evil, traveling down the lineage, taking its dreadful toll of each generation.

Disease was also taking a "dreadful toll" and the environment was being seriously damaged and large areas of land turned into desert.

There's no missing the dreadful toll of inner-city decay in America's urban slums.

The first wave of attackers had taken a dreadful toll among the Norsemen.

The author, in contemplating the dreadful toll that the civil war beginning in the mid-1980's has taken on his native land, aspires to the same role.

The war took a dreadful human toll.

Sharks, saltwater poisoning and hallucination take their dreadful toll.

He was thinking also of the wall and the dreadful toll it took daily.