Example sentences for: nightmarish

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

  • The aftermath of such an agreement may prove to be almost as nightmarish as what came before."

  • A maze of alleys crammed with stalls, Qingping offers up acres of herbs, spices, jade, antiques, memorabilia, goldfish, songbirds, and a sometimes nightmarish display of live animals destined for the kitchen, including dogs, cats, and rare species.

  • As nightmarish as the Corleones' lives came to be, there was still something seductive about being taken under the wings of expansive father figures with few uncertainties about what they were put on this earth to do.

  • It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.

  • Occasionally, I have a nightmarish vision in which the Santa Fe Institute, that temple of "complexity theory" (whose heavy hitters include Bak, biologist Stuart Kauffman and, yes, economist Brian Arthur) actually starts having direct input into major policy decisions.


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