Example sentences for: dread

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

  • Japan, say the economists, has fallen into the dread "liquidity trap."

  • The score, by Ryuichi Sakamoto, is full of post-Romantic film noir gloom, but Sakamoto also introduces a more modern, free-floating anxiety, a New Age dread that deepens the horror--that takes it out of the whodunit class and into the "Can we ever believe what we see?"

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

  • 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.

  • I was, for one thing, suspicious of the media hype--to which we are now, of course, contributing--around these books, and I still dread the eventual movies and the inevitable merchandising frenzy that will follow.


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