DREAD in a Sentence

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244 example sentences for DREAD, such as:

1. He told me a dreadful story.
2. They told us the dreadful news.
3. It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.
4. I've got an interview tomorrow and I'm dreading it.
5. The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.

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 Meanings and Examples of DREAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dread
 n.  fearful or distasteful anticipation; terror; horror
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  His dread was so strong that, man-like, he sought to postpone certainty.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  His former dread started up full-armed at the suggestion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Some of the disappointment of the day and the dread of the morrow departed from her, leaving a feeling of hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Suspense grew and the beginnings of dread slowly crawled over the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Sheridan was a name to bring dread to Southern hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Scarlett had seen enough typhoid in the Atlanta hospital to know what a week meant in that dread disease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Weary with dread, she felt that she would rather kill herself than try to make a new beginning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
14  The feeling of dread which had possessed her in the hall deepened as she saw his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The dreadful events of 11th September have filled people throughout the world with a revulsion for terrorism, whatever its aims.
17  It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.
18  The film was dreadful - all spooks and vampires.
19  I can't get that dreadful moment/image out of my mind.
20  I cannot imagine what to do in this dreadful situation.
21  They told us the dreadful news.
22  He told me a dreadful story.
23  They all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak.
24  "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."
25  "It's the first position in dancing." Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
26  The version of the play that I saw had been dreadfully bowdlerized.
27  The party are dreading a repeat performance of their defeat in the last election.
28  He's dreading his driving test - he's sure he's going to fail.
29  I've got an interview tomorrow and I'm dreading it.
30  Ben Rogers hove in sight presently -- the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.