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."

  • 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.

  • Those who attend academic conferences soon come to dread the speaker who reads aloud a paper meant to be read in a journal: it is almost impossible to assimilate its information because none of the normal communicative devices used in viva voce communication are present--repetition being among them.

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

  • A story mocks America's burgeoning dread of germs.


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