Example sentences for: dread

How can you use “dread” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But nowadays, so many of my contemporaries and colleagues are going--five at Harvard and MIT in the past months--that I turn to those pages with what Kierkegaard called "the concept of the Dread."

  • He could not shake the dread feeling that he and all the others who had been involved in those projects were sitting on a bomb that, sooner or later, would explode in their faces.

  • Many promoters blame general Y2K dread for the sluggish sales.

  • The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.

  • Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.


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