nightmare

Example Sentences

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"We are very happy, relieved. It's finally the end of a nightmare, and we are so happy," Sylvie Felix told AFP.

From Barron's

Long gashes, like wounds in the earth from some terrified beast clawing at a nightmare, raked the ground next to the crater on the mountain top.

From Literature

"It's horrible, it's a nightmare. But coming back here today, I still find it beautiful. It also shows that life goes on," says visitor Shannon Bugnon.

From Barron's

This caused disruption, leading to empty shelves in the all important run up to Christmas trading, a "nightmare" putting the turnaround six months behind schedule, they said.

From BBC

“That’s the nightmare scenario — that those things just happen more frequently and become more exacerbated when the agency is not firing on all cylinders,” Inge said.

From MarketWatch