nightmarish

Example Sentences

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The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The 31‑year‑old admitted she had begun having strange, nightmarish dreams ahead of her big moment at London Fashion Week on Sunday.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Harvey Pratt was a young police officer in Midwest City, Okla., during a string of nightmarish murders in the early 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

What could be more gulp-inducing than trying to defeat a nightmarish vine-covered villain and wipe out an eerie and horror-filled alternate dimension?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

They are disturbing to look at, nightmarish, but most of them, oddly enough, are intended as lucky benignities.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas