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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:

On substance, he is about where we are, except that he raises the dread question of heredity, about which I will say a few words later.
The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
(I'm aware of the counterexample: the dread Harmony Korinne, whose hacking at his canvas is an attempt to disguise his limitations as bold artistic choices.)
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?"
The very idea of public culture seems to fill him with dread, and it's hard to think of a single piece of meaningful social intercourse in the entire movie.