nightmare

Example Sentences

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Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

He said that he’d been having a recurring nightmare.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

But the basic point remains: There is absolutely no good reason, none, for this annual tax nightmare.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

More than three years on, his mother is living every parent's worst nightmare.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

That this nightmare life of hunger and fear that we’ve been living might be over.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron