Example sentences for: dread

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

  • (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.)

  • 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?

  • America, after all, elected Nixon--and not despite the paranoia and dread that runs through this book but, in some ways, because of it.

  • The public health people understandably dread creating more drunks, more broken marriages, more crime, more car wrecks.

  • 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.


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