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Example sentences for: dread

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

Everything is exasperatingly, often laughably, overexplicit, and once a dread becomes material, a ghost story becomes a monster movie--a different, far less terrifying beast.
Many promoters blame general Y2K dread for the sluggish sales.
The public health people understandably dread creating more drunks, more broken marriages, more crime, more car wrecks.
Fashion was born to stand for both unslaked personal desire and unappeased personal dread; it reflects our modern devotion to the fragile trajectory of an individual life.
It was Father's Day, 1980, and Subia got the call all parents dread.