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
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