dread

Example Sentences

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"I hate school holidays. I hate the half-term. I hate Christmas. I dread the phone ringing, because the bites do increase during the holiday period and half-term and it's just horrendous."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Lots of people may ask this question as excitement or dread builds around the PBS debut of “The Forsytes.”

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

One piece of data triggers optimism, followed just days, or hours, later by apocalyptic dread.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

“And I’m going to be less blindly trusting! Seriously, if Shifa hadn’t swapped the maps, I dread to think what would have happened to you. I would have never forgiven myself.”

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook