DREAD in a Sentence
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244 example sentences for DREAD, such as:
1. Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.
2. No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
3. Lord knows where he dug up that dreadful story.
4. The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.
5. Sheridan was a name to bring dread to Southern hearts.
2. No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
3. Lord knows where he dug up that dreadful story.
4. The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.
5. Sheridan was a name to bring dread to Southern hearts.
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Meanings and Examples of DREAD
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dread
a. causing fear or dread or terror
v. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There was really, even now, no tangible evidence to the contrary; but since the previous night a vague dread had hung on his sky-line.
2 His dread was so strong that, man-like, he sought to postpone certainty.
3 His former dread started up full-armed at the suggestion.
4 Some of the disappointment of the day and the dread of the morrow departed from her, leaving a feeling of hope.
5 Suspense grew and the beginnings of dread slowly crawled over the town.
6 Sheridan was a name to bring dread to Southern hearts.
7 Scarlett had seen enough typhoid in the Atlanta hospital to know what a week meant in that dread disease.
8 On the morning of the first of September, Scarlett awoke with a suffocating sense of dread upon her, a dread she had taken to her pillow the night before.
9 The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.
10 The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
11 Weary with dread, she felt that she would rather kill herself than try to make a new beginning.
12 Remembering these tragedies, a cold dread ran in the veins of those whose motto was "No surrender"--a dread which the very sight of Melanie's soft but unyielding face dispelled.
13 She remembered with dread Rhett's remark that he would even join their damned Klan to be respectable, though he hoped God would not lay so heavy a penance on his shoulders.
14 The feeling of dread which had possessed her in the hall deepened as she saw his face.
15 As she had run a hundred times in dreams, she ran now, flying blindly she knew not where, driven by a nameless dread, seeking in the gray mist for the safety that lay somewhere.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 There is no royal road to science,and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits.
2 I dread to think what would happen if there really was a fire here.
3 We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.
4 I dread to think what will happen if they get elected.
5 Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.
6 While the seamen, pointing fingers, shrink in dread, and cry, 'Turn back!”
7 The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy, but in reality that result was caused rather more by his worshipful awe of his unknown idol and the dread pleasure that lay in his high good fortune.
8 I looked into a certain corner near, half-expecting to see the slim outline of a once dreaded switch which used to lurk there, waiting to leap out imp-like and lace my quivering palm or shrinking neck.
9 No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
10 Consent, then, to his demand is possible: but for one item -- one dreadful item.
11 'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
12 The room is in dreadful disorder, you have no chance to find that box.
13 They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
14 When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
15 Lord knows where he dug up that dreadful story.