dread
Example Sentences
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Employees are encouraged to gain mastery over what Kier Eagan describes as the Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
Dread of the school drop-off line has been percolating for years.
From Slate • Sep. 3, 2024
“It’s almost like the Dread Pirate Roberts from ‘The Princess Bride.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
In 2002, Mr. Amis published “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million,” a study of the Stalin regime’s atrocities in the Soviet Union.
From New York Times • May 20, 2023
Dread hit him at a sprint, seizing his entire body.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Vocabulary lists containing dread
The Grim Reader: Wicked Words of Grave Importance for Halloween
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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