nightmare

Example Sentences

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But the new season also opens with a rather blood-curdling scream and gothic nightmare of darkness and horror that turns out to have nothing to do with what the plot eventually tells us happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The difference in class was underlined when Putellas was replaced by three-time Ballon d'Or winner Aitana Bonmati, who set up fellow substitute Claudia Pina to seal England's nightmare evening.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Subconsciously hearkening back to his childhood sleep experiences, he adds, “I wanted this story to feel like a nightmare that just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Read: Could a jet-fuel shortage turn your European summer vacation into a nightmare?

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

He felt like he’d woken up from one nightmare, only to be locked inside a new one.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis