Example sentences for: dreaded

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

  • The one for this warning of possible discipline is a Form No. 163, so the PC can now say of himself, I've been one-six-three'd; and a bit later, when the senior officer assigned to investigate the complaint decides that there is enough evidence to justify a hearing (which he always does), comes the even more dreaded next stage, I've been one-six-foured --i.e., given notice of the date of the disciplinary hearing.

  • Just four years later, cholera claimed the lives of up to 7,000 Madeirans, and in 1873 the dreaded disease phylloxera destroyed the remainder of the vineyards.

  • 1. "Today was the day when the dreaded 9/9/99 bug was supposed to strike and mess up computers everywhere.

  • Corridos (ballads) from the Texas-Mexican border originating from the late 1800s until the turn of the century narrate episodes of border conflict in which the antagonist is often a member of the dreaded rinches.

  • Like Glazer, I have questioned affirmative action and dreaded the creation of a legal caste/quota system.


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