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"Dread" in a Sentence (28 examples)
Why do you think animals dread fire?
Cats have a dread of water.
He may dread to learn the results.
He is in constant dread of his father.
They live in constant dread of floods.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
When in Sydney, I went one Sunday morning to bathe. I was accompanied by a friend who had just arrived from the South Sea Islands. He was very timid, and clung to the rock, never going beyond a few yards from it, and instantly returning. Upon rallying him, he confessed his great dread of sharks.
What I dread most is to get into a rut.
My writing desk, a place of dread: an incredible number of incredibly useful drawers - combined with incredibly little legspace.
Shortly afterwards her father came to see her and found her quite happy, and he felt much less dread of her fate at the hands of the Beast.
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I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread.
the secret dread of divine displeasure
the dread of something after death
They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
Una, his dear dread
The mightie ones, affrayd of every chaunges dread
Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some.
The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.
With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel
I even remember thinking that no human being would go down that dread path again.
1980, Donald Fagen; Walter Becker (lyrics and music), "Glamour Profession" in Gaucho, track 3: "Jack with his radar / Stalking the dread moray eel"
The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]
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