nightmare
Example Sentences
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Since then, he’s suffered from bouts of uncontrolled sobbing and relentless nightmares.
The security guard, who lives in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, describes her time there in the early 1980s as a "nightmare".
From BBC
The scenes are the stuff of nightmares, and even villainy.
From Los Angeles Times
A woman who had scabies has described the experience as a "nightmare" as figures show a rise in reported cases of the parasitic infestation.
From BBC
It wasn’t the first time he’d had that nightmare: faces that appeared and faded as they taunted him.
From Literature
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