4 example sentences using dread.
Dread used in a sentence
Dread in a sentence as a noun
They feel a constant sense of discomfort, even dread.
Refactoring the Javascript is something we dread, and always introduces bugs, some of which might linger for up to a year.
Dread in a sentence as a verb
I sympathize, partially because I get filled with existential dread every time I get a voicemail message to my business number.
I didn't make it out to see him and I wish I had. So the first thing I feel is dread, it takes a moment to resolve that he wasn't there, and then I think will I ever be able to get close enough to reach out my hand to him as he comes down the final stretch again or did I miss that chance forever?Will it be all police cars, dogs and jersey walls from here on out?
Dread definitions
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
See also: apprehension apprehensiveness
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
See also: fear
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"