nightmare

Example Sentences

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In many cases, families that were torn apart said the nightmare "started in the doctor's offices."

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

But expanding rights piecemeal creates a nightmare for divorce lawyers, who found themselves building the plane in midair with gay breakups in the aughts and early 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

The prolonged instability has heightened the risk of a nightmare economic scenario in which the strait remains effectively closed for months to come, adding to inflationary pressures and deepening a global economic slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

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

I needed to get outside now, before the girls rushed headlong into another nightmare brought on by a lack of caution.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall