Example sentences for: dread

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

  • TEXT DDD: Those dread words "longer articles" raise one of the big uncertainties about this enterprise: How long an article will people be willing to read on a computer screen?

  • 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.

  • 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?"

  • 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."

  • Chiaro, always more that than oscuro in her presentation, is not only not to be blamed for the lack of theory but merits praise for having tackled a subject that most of us dread and that has not been treated satisfactorily by any of its commentators, from Plato to Freud to Hockett, et al.


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