How To Use Dread In A Sentence

  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
  • I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit. Les Miserables
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  • The Truth is, I had heard so ill a Character of the Town Amours, as being all Libertinism, and more especially the Inns of Court, that I dreaded to launch on so dangerous a Sea; thinking each The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
  • For once I controlled myself and didn't berate her as a feeling of dread spread through me. THE EXECUTION
  • It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
  • It is dreadfully sad to reflect that he grew up in such a short time and in such tragic circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
  • And I am dreading having to look the people who have witnessed my wretched performance in the eye over dinner. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
  • But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
  • Of course, she stepped on it, it made the dreaded 'crinkly' noise and she jerked-- her head catching in the loop of the bag. Poursuivre - French Word-A-Day
  • As I write this, Neil and Christine Hamilton, as if in dreadful warning to him, are appearing on Hole in the Wall. Edwina Currie, Bobby Davro and Lembit Opik
  • Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
  • With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description. Found While Looking for Something Else
  • Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of Paradise.
  • Bright's disease, and, if he hears the word carcinoma, he will certainly look it out in a medical dictionary, if he does not interpret its dread significance on the instant. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • What remains to be seen is if he can emulate the he seems to be beefier which is very good no more dreads Comic Book Movie
  • Before you turn the page, wondering why I've chosen such a dreadful piece of sugary sentimentalism for this week's painting, give Greuze's grieving girl a second glance.
  • Her dread is so great that at the end of her progress she does not even allow his name to pass her lips and uses periphrases to talk of him.
  • While some looked forward to that first wild week, just as many dreaded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Man might think that he's the most intelligent life form on earth but this is simply a dreadful mistake.
  • It is also a sovereign remedy for the dreadful _chiragra_ or gout. Japhet in Search of a Father
  • After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
  • Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. The Scottish Chiefs
  • With a 33 km mountain run behind me and a 67 km white-water kayak ahead, I felt pain, dread, exaltation, jubilation, anticipation, fear and joy - give me more emotions.
  • If it is the slightest bit ‘green’ it has a dreadful desiccative effect on the inside of your mouth.
  • So I know first-hand that you can take a pic of a person at two different angles and make them look either terrific or dreadful. The Sun
  • The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
  • They're saying it was a group of rogue scientists making a dreadful mistake.
  • For the sizeable minority still remaining, this question is dreaded. Times, Sunday Times
  • But I nary not mention my displeasure and dread and off we embarked to Spencer's Plaza on a journey of discovery.
  • It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur -- what you would call a currier -- on his hinder parts and drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village. Under the Deodars
  • In common with all politicians, he has a dread of winter elections.
  • I do feel dreadfully sad, Marilla. Anne of Green Gables
  • What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
  • I would dread to think that a scene such as the one I witnessed at the age of twelve could happen in a playground now.
  • I wish I had, because my dread about being trapped with cruise-ship bozos would have been replaced by a more accurate dread of being trapped with ocean-liner snobs.
  • A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
  • This marks a sad pass for a brand name that, while dreaded by many parents, spelled excitement to a generation of kids.
  • Finally, sick with dread, she went over to the small clear plastic cube sitting on the washstand. GRACE
  • But we do respect her bravery in standing up against a dreadful regime.
  • Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
  • The doctor had dreadlocks, pierced ears and nose and tattoos everywhere.
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  • polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
  • The violence of the past-specifically, the dreaded practice of necklacing, which mingled the smell of rubber with the ‘sickly stench of roasting human flesh’ has been eliminated.
  • Dreadstar Vol. 1 TPB - This reprint of Jim Starlin's 80's ouvre collects the first few issues of the series (and not the Metamorphosis Odyssey that resulted in galactic genocide) that persuaded me that scifi wasn't so bad. Grafictive excesses
  • The game was played in dreadful conditions with driving rain and howling winds ruining the contest.
  • It made me feel dreadfully insignificant. Anne of Green Gables
  • This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
  • I dread to think what would have happened if she hadn't had us looking out for her.
  • It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships. 2009 August 21 « Third Point of Singularity
  • O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
  • Dawn receives some dreadful news on her big day. The Sun
  • But the radio also brought dreadful news. Times, Sunday Times
  • A petulant man-child with scrunched fists, no sense of natural rhythm and his vision permanently obscured by a single greasy dreadlock. Dancing On Ice: Grace Dent's TV OD
  • I left my hair the way I usually keep it, twisted in sections kind of like dreadlocks.
  • The part I don't get is why the really dreadful singers set themselves up for scorn and mockery - and they have to know that's what they're in for.
  • he dreaded the storminess of the North Atlantic in winter
  • Advances in medicine are increasing life expectancy and diseases which are dread killers today will be curable tomorrow.
  • The dread in the Baroque originated with the intolerable idea of a body without a soul.
  • Likewise, we've endured the ever-dreaded swimsuit competition and the nerve-racking interview segment, in which at least one contestant routinely flops.
  • Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
  • The moment we have dreaded for so long has arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • I swim here with Byron because I dread to swim alone, and tolerate all his impudent remarks.
  • The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
  • Not for him the eye-catching drama of a dreadful miss and mistimed tackle to be redeemed by brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
  • I dread to think what our telephone bill is going to be.
  • Who actually watches these dreadful films and thinks that they're masterpieces of modern cinema?
  • They were onto the danger of losing her to the streets or to some dreadful accident.
  • The hotel food was dreadful, so for three days our iron rations were fruit, cheese and bread.
  • There was one very dark night in the month o 'January, when I was little mair than seventeen, my faither and me were gaun to Morpeth, and we were wishing to get forward wi' the beasts as far as Whittingham; but just as we were about half a mile doun the loanin 'frae Glanton, it cam' awa ane o 'the dreadfu'est storms that e'er mortal was out in. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
  • He had a little dread of the magnitude and corners of this dwelling that was to be his in the future, and of the old men who sat in it all day saying nothing, but it was strange indeed (thought he) if with Miss Mary within, and the sunshine and the throng and the children playing in the syver sand without, he should not find life more full and pleasant than it had been in the glen. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • The food was dreadful, salty and reheated, which is something we haven't experienced even in the smallest most remote village. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • If there is a God I hope that he takes me first then I can go with a contented mind knowing that she did not suffer this dreadful disease any longer.
  • So, I'd appreciate your thoughts on the technical and social aspects of having dreadlocks.
  • John himself was diagnosed with cancer some years ago and knows what a dreadful experience it can be.
  • We all felt absolutely dreadful for him. The Sun
  • She dreads her husband finding out.
  • On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies. HOTHOUSE
  • But that the reader may be able to judge whether the English or those who differ from them in opinion are in the right, here follows the history of the famed inoculation, which is mentioned with so much dread in France. Letters on England
  • Anna's arm hurt dreadfully, worse than when she'd fallen off the top of the climbing frame at the nursery.
  • To and fro she went, in noiseless ministry, as the long, dreadful days wore away, with a quiet smile on her lips, and in her dark, sorrowful eyes the rapt look of a pictured saint in some dim cathedral niche. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
  • For that is a fact: up to the age of five-and-forty, the dreadless Tartarin of Tarascon
  • In fact, it's likely they may be tired and dreading the monotony of a step routine.
  • To tell you the truth, I'm rather dreading his return.
  • Under this same heading, the so-called dread disease cover also is an important benefit one can add to a conventional life assurance policy.
  • A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Vanity Fair
  • There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
  • On the other side Kilkenny's kickers had the kind of day any kicker dreads.
  • Here is a dreadful word I came across in a British theological journal in 1979: euthanatizing. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
  • Do some people dread them as much as others crave them? Times, Sunday Times
  • He never speaks (or at least hasn't in my company), and despite his bum-length dreads and army wear, seems to blend quite easily into the blur of Ednburgh life.
  • The Exiles battled hard on a dreadful pitch that looked more like a beach. The Sun
  • The pastiness combined with all of her wrinkles, and it made her look absolutely dreadful, as though she was an anemic dragged from the grave.
  • Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).
  • Women still do twice as much housework as men Women do twice as much housework as men, and the bulk of the most dreaded chores. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the ultimatum is not at once accepted we may look for that dreadful catastrophe, a sex war. Elections Past
  • We dread turning into a lumpish, sexless gnome in a pastel sweatsuit, existing for the free cheese samples at the supermarket and owning too many mugs with funny sayings on them. Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
  • Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Immigration officers fill me with fear and dread.
  • I dread to think what will happen if they get elected .
  • It features dreadfully long and boring ‘action’ sequences comprised mostly of repeating footage of men firing pistols in the dark.
  • KJ knows I secretly dread the day I start going bald (when this "pig fur" will be gone from the world forever), so the other day she said that she read somewhere that male baldness is caused by an abundance of hormones that usually indicated health in ... ahem ... other areas. And One to Grow On
  • As an aside, battleship armor used by dreadnaught and super dreadnaught battleships is referred to as all or nothing protection. Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq
  • He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Moon Lore
  • Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
  • It has been widely denounced as a dreadful, expensive mistake, the very nadir of reality television… all of which is true, but what's your point?
  • This is the kind of complex question every Quaker theosopher such as myself dreads, because there are no easy answers.
  • Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
  • On the contrary, it would have seemed an admission that our spheres and years divided us and that we were making a dreadful mistake.
  • The high pitched whine of the armoured cars as they manoeuvred round the narrow streets filled me with dread.
  • ‘Nevertheless it was a serious attack, with dreadful injuries and that of course is something he regrets immensely,’ she said.
  • In the original, Job wound up with boils and I kept dreading what they'd rhyme it with… spoils?
  • I filled out the dreaded unemployment benefits application and sent it in.
  • Poor thing! You look absolutely dreadful!
  • This heat seems to have had a dreadfully enervating effect on everyone.
  • That would be a great pity, because they are all lovely people and we shall miss them dreadfully.
  • Lo, neither do dolphins of the brine fare on land, nor bulls on the deep, but dreadless dost thou rush o'er land and sea alike, thy hooves serving thee for oars. Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
  • The clamor of controversy sometimes provoked the emperor to exclaim, “Hear me! the Franks have heard me, and the Alemanni;” but he soon discovered that he was now engaged with more obstinate and implacable enemies; and though he exerted the powers of oratory to persuade them to live in concord, or at least in peace, he was perfectly satisfied, before he dismissed them from his presence, that he had nothing to dread from the union of the Christians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Lost for words, experiencing an unwelcome and sudden sense of dread, she mounted her own charger and spurred it after the knight, who was riding up to join King Lot.
  • -- "If they don't start soon I'll be taking the neuralgy dreadful. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
  • It was yet another dreadful defensive lapse by Palace. The Sun
  • In ‘The Vulture’ he tells of the dreaded bird building a nest on the highest branch of the tree in front of their house.
  • He dreaded the prospect of being all alone in that house.
  • Death is, as one of the ancients observes, [Greek: to ton phoberon phoberotaton], _of dreadful things the most dreadful_: an evil, beyond which nothing can be threatened by sublunary power, or feared from human enmity or vengeance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
  • I love my job, relish the operational role and will no doubt miss it dreadfully.
  • He was carrying on dreadful, shaking at the gaite, and calling out it was 'is The Hill of Dreams
  • What went so dreadfully wrong? The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
  • She had the most dreadful dark circles under her eyes.
  • But he was no match for this dreadful black bulk that descended upon him with the resistlessness of doom. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
  • The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty. England's Antiphon
  • Mistakes, some of them dreadful, were certainly made.
  • I remember your hair, that fall of dreadlocks over buzzcut sides, Thor's Day
  • And he hath gathered in her the mightiest heroes of all Achaea, and hath come to thy city from wandering far through cities and gulfs of the dread ocean, in the hope that thou wilt grant him the fleece. The Argonautica
  • Normal childhood, normal family, nothing dreadful in the woodshed there. LOST CHILDREN
  • And the most dread is, that God will take vengeance then of that that men have misdone against his will. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • It is a dreadful initiative in policy terms, but electorally appears to have been successful in negativing any northern suburb's fears about Labor being soft on crime.
  • They were followed by the elite regiment of the von Reusch or Black Hussars HR5, decked out in their fearsome all black uniforms and mirliton hats bearing the dreaded death's head on the front of the cap. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Thus the dreadful smogs of pre-1952 have been eliminated and the emission of noxious and offensive gases limited.
  • There had suddenly sprung up a "Brickfielder", that dreaded wind, which may be considered one of the worst plagues of Sydney.
  • And there's a couple of crusty guys with dreads sitting in there drinking milkshakes and stuff!
  • With the return of the dreaded S-word juxtaposed with some of the most beautiful sunshine we've seen in months, the Northwest is feeling a bit punchy. Seattlest
  • There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
  • The Italian could soon be chomping on a cigar if his players continue to inch farther away from the dreaded play-off positions. Times, Sunday Times
  • We look at past history, at the drama which brought us here, with feelings of horror and dread. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
  • Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis. The Crack of Doom
  • The belief in fairies was universal, and their power was specially dreaded in the case of women in childbed and of unbaptised infants.
  • Teoh Poh Yew is a dynamic and creative mathematics educator, who firmly believes that everyone can learn and enjoys this "dreaded" subject.
  • Nor does it use atmospheric locations to provide a sense of dread and evil.
  • But there is no man in the world so hardy, Christian man ne other, but that he would be adread to behold it, and that it would seem him to die for dread, so is it hideous for to behold. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
  • I thought it was her nature, but when she got over the dread disease she had brought into the home… her true nature came out.
  • The unprecedented number of casualties and the dreadful wounds caused by high-explosive shells seriously stretched the medical services. Times, Sunday Times
  • Last year's Nobel Prize winner gives us the horror and the squalor, the dislocation and the dread that are the legacy of empire.
  • While some looked forward to that first wild week, just as many dreaded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • As we negotiated our way through icefalls and crevasse fields, I experienced feelings of awe and wonder instead of terror and dread.
  • We can feel dreadful for them without providing commentary at the horrible spectacle of it all. The Sun
  • Cosmographer, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
  • Things could be worse: count your blessings that you are not a victim of pantophobia -- the morbid dread of everything. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • I dread it and feel the pressure of all the expectation. The Sun
  • I'm a dreadful ` 80s kind of dag, a child of that era," she said. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
  • I have absorbed their arguments, their conclusions, and their mortal dread.
  • What Fokker dreads most is that it would have to suspend payments.
  • Attaching self-esteem so inextricably to this physical ephemeron is just all kinds of cringe-inducing from the long view, as one imagines hard-won confidence melting slowly away as rock hard abs give way to the dreaded "jelly belly" once again. I Want to Wrap My Self-Esteem in a Package of Improbable Preservation! Rah Rah Rah!
  • ” Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread. Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
  • He was still weak and shaky, but the dreadful enervation and nausea had disappeared.
  • Some of his thinning hair is tied into dreadlocks that hang down his back.
  • The slime - a thick, mucus-like substance that smelled positively dreadful - was dribbling down the steps in a slow and steady ooze.
  • Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
  • It is absolutely dreadful that they are reducing spending on this scheme. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their twin USPs are, first, their cleverly constructed harmonies, which offset the affectlessness of Roxanne Clifford's voice, and, second, that they eschew the twee and embrace the gothic, be it suicide (Beachy Head), romance with the afterlife (Found Love in a Graveyard), or simply nameless dread (Bad Feeling). Veronica Falls: Veronica Falls – review
  • The dreadful suffering endured by those addicted to the drugs, the ruin of lives which should be useful, do not constitute the whole of the evil, for the ills spread to their families.
  • She was reduced to dread lest she should become a mother. Daniel Deronda
  • Her greatest dread was that she would lose her job.
  • Perseus insists he wants to defeat a dread monster called the kraken, as a man, not a god, which like the rest of this movie is a bit of wishful thinking. 3D Clashes With 'Titan's' Remake
  • Dreadful episodes like these have helped to boost Nader's challenge.
  • All diseases were dreaded, but diphtheria was the worst for it killed quickly and painfully. PAINT THE WIND
  • The idea of my uncle giving me away is making me dread the day. The Sun
  • He, too, may one day be struck with the dreaded lurgy.
  • I was dreading the prospect of hospital fare: bland food and sugary drinks. The Sun
  • As he traversed the globe I learnt to switch my mind off to all the dreadful disasters he may encounter. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old dread knotted her stomach.
  • Separating the two conflicting partitions was a thick row of tall buildings and condominiums that ran right down the middle - a minute version of the dreaded Berlin Wall in the smallest of senses.
  • Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity, it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.
  • There is no royal road to science,and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits. 
  • His touches are average dark ambient and he palliates what could otherwise be the sound of dread and belligerence.
  • This sense of statelessness terrified him and he dreaded what might happen if the Indonesian or Malaysian police nabbed him.
  • I dreaded to think how much of their lives depended on the whim of this man. The Crossing-Place
  • He then proceeded to cut off all my dreads until I was left with messy short blondish hair with brown roots.
  • Part of the style in the photo seems to be using an oversize cap, but that may just be necessary because of the dreads.
  • The dreadlocked Shane Claiborne is here, author of The Irresistible Revolution (2006) and a leader of a movement known as the New Monasticism. Sing to the Lord a New Song
  • The event is just dreadful and yet the way it's recorded is great art and it leads us into a kind of paradox.
  • Cla Meredith thought he had been summoned from the bullpen to face the dreadlocked slugger after Edward Mujica (0-1) had given up back-to-back singles to Rafael Furcal and Orlando Hudson with one out. USATODAY.com
  • I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
  • FOREST pulled away from the dreaded drop zone with a win over fellow strugglers Millwall. The Sun

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