dread

"There's this kind of apathy and a bit of dread."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The arrival of another winter fills her family with dread, but unlike many others, they are not planning to move out of Delhi.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

It’s only a matter of time before the scaries ruin Saturday too, turning it into a day to dread the dread we’ll feel on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The vision of a utopian domestic future took a strange turn during the Cold War, marrying the breathless excitement of the space age with the existential dread of nuclear annihilation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

He was filled with dread, loneliness, and shame in equal parts.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Jonathan Blythe, 41, has Asperger's Syndrome and dreads the autumn arriving, as he know it will bring a nightly din with it.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Marco Biscarini, a father of two young children in Franklin, Tenn., said he dreads the season because he’s forced to map out safe routes to avoid gruesome displays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I’m a suburban dude,” he said, smiling from his home in metro Atlanta, his cropped two-toned dreads bobbing as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I have a friend who works the cash register at a supermarket, and she told me that she dreads the holidays.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Okay then, maybe not. Anyway, this tall black guy with dreads, really cute, was like, ‘You went to Greenbriar and you haven’t read James Baldwin?

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

United Airlines announced in July that it would offer a new Economy Plus option that allows customers to forgo having a passenger in the dreaded middle seat.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

The hospital near my hometown was once a dreaded workhouse for the poor; my mother recalled seeing destitute children peering through its iron gates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

When we returned to Los Angeles, I dreaded becoming dependent on a car for everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"I suffered from body dysmorphia for years because of that, believing that no matter how strong, thin or young I was, there was no escaping the dreaded cottage cheese thighs."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The way Grandma was or could be, we dreaded the thought of asking someone outside the family to endure even a few days alone with her.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

As for Spivey, she cried before heading to a funeral home for her daughter, dreading having to fill out a death certificate and decide whether to cremate or bury her firstborn child.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

And we’re dreading the coming costs to move our cars and some furnishings to the West Coast.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

And so I was dreading having to editorialize about this, but fortunately a pollster did it for me.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

Many of my Chicago neighbors wake each morning dreading what they’ll read in the newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

It was at dinner on their first day back at Falling Water that Citra finally broached the subject she had been dreading.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman