Dread Sentence Examples

A feeling of dread was in the air.

Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly.

Dread settled into his stomach.

Her sense of dread grew as she approached and followed Jonny into his apartment.

With a look of dread, she went ahead of him.

Dread settled into her stomach.

A tremor of dread slid through her.

With some dread, he returned to Deidre's apartment.

The events of the last few days coupled with the dread of the unknown future were taking their toll.

A sense of dread filled her as she approached Damian's room.

Dread pooled in the base of his stomach for more than one reason.

He met Dan's gaze and saw the same sense of dread on his counterpart's face.

Accustomed freely and fearlessly to investigate whatever came before him, and swayed by a scrupulous dread of insincerity, he was doomed to long and anxious hesitation concerning some of the fundamental points of theology before arriving at a firm conviction of the truth of Christianity.

With a sense of deep dread, he felt for the first time that the role he expected of her may not be a role she chose to fulfill.

Dread filled her as she drove up the familiar driveway to the stone manor.

It felt much like dread.

He felt dread knot in his stomach at the sign she wasn't going to give Rhyn yet another chance.

With some dread, she hunched her shoulders to keep anyone from looking at her micro and opened those from Mr. Tim.

She turned, her body tense and her large green eyes swimming with fear and dread.

Dread of Servia impelled Kotro manic to aid Hungary.

In fact, her emotion at the moment would better be described as uncomfortable – if not outright dread.

A senior backbencher said, " I dread to think of some of the scenes they will capture.

She'd watched the arriving guests with a mixture of fascination and dread.

Her body settled, and she recalled the look on his face with a mix of excitement and dread.

His gaze flickered to the necklace with a sense of dread.

The natives do not really respect these wandering friars, but they dread their curses.

Pope Liberius baptized him in 360; three years later the news of the death of the emperor Julian came to Rome, and Christians felt relieved from a great dread.

Opposition to the Washington treaty and dread of the bold railway policy of the government also contributed to weaken its position.

Dread of the Normans, too, explains the singular attitude of the Curia towards the Comneni, of whom it was alternately the enemy and the protector or ally.

Litigation in the yarn trade is very unusual, and Lancashire traders generally have only vague notions of the bearing of law upon their transactions, and a wholesome dread of the exp'erience that would lead to better knowledge.

It was probably the origin of the story of Narcissus, and there is scarcely a race which is free from the haunting dread.

Although the Bab g (4) g Y lonian religion presents a very gloomy view of the world of the dead, it is not without a few faint glimpses of a hope that a few mortals at least may gain deliverance from the dread doom.

When he died (1658) there remained branded on the national mind two strong impressions which it took more than a century to obliteratethe dread of the domination of a standing army, and abhorrence of the very fame of religious zeal.

He didn't expect the sight of his necklace dangling in the center of her chest to fill him with anything other than regret or dread.

Hincmar of Reims and Haimo of Halberstadt, took the side of Paschasius, and affirmed that the substance of the bread and wine is changed, and that God leaves the colour, taste and other outward properties out of mercy to the worshippers, who would be overcome with dread if the underlying real flesh and blood were nakedly revealed to their gaze !

Materialists seem to dread the word " materialism."

During the breeding season it utters a booming noise, from which it probably derives its generic name, Botaurus, and which has made it in many places an object of superstitious dread.

A kinder or more faithful friend, a deadlier or more dangerous enemy, it would be impossible to dread or to desire.

Gradually, however, he was made uneasy by the obvious trend of the imperial policy towards the annihilation of Protestantism, and by a dread lest the ecclesiastical lands should be taken from him; and the issue of the edict of restitution in March 1629 put the coping-stone to his fears.

Yet such was the dread of The France and the enfeebled state of the country that Holland retained the privilege, which had been con- Nether- ceded to her during the war, of garrisoning the principal fortresses or Barrier towns, on the French frontier, and her right to close the navigation on the Scheldt was again ratified by a European treaty.

This advice was rejected from dread of another revolution in Paris, and a delegation to organize resistance in the provinces was despatched to Tours, but when this was seen to be inefficient Gambetta himself (7th October) quitted Paris in a balloon, and upon arriving at Tours took the supreme direction of affairs as minister of the interior and of war.

He wrote inconsiderately on the subject, but we must remember that he was at the time afflicted in body and mentally haunted by dread of impending change.

No longer had the princes as in former years any reason to dread the designs of an ambitious king; the destinies of the kingdom were in their own hands and they would not permit them to be controlled by an alien power.

The Ultramontane party in Austria, France and Bavaria had, after 1866, been hostile to Prussia; there was some ground to fear that it might still succeed in bringing about a Catholic coalition against the empire, and Bismarck lived in constant dread of European coalitions.

During this time of prosperity there was no dread of Carthaginian inroads.

In spite of all the precautions they took and the contracts they made, the Egyptians could never quite rid themselves of the dread that their tombs might decay and their cult be neglected; and they sought therefore to obtain by prayers and threats what they feared they might lose altogether.

The monuments of the great Buddhist monarchs, Asoka and Kanishka, confronted him from the time he neared the Punjab frontier; but so also did the temples of Siva and his " dread " queen Bhima.

Penal servitude, to use the words of the lord chief justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, one of the members of the committee, "was hardly calculated to produce on the mind of the criminal that salutary dread of the recurrence of the punishment which may be the means of deterring him and, through his example, others from the commission of crime."

But these people were rendered licentious in revolt or impotent for salutary action by ignorance, by terror, by uneasy dread of the doom declared for heretics and rebels.

The session, however, was not far advanced when the question of patents was brought up; a determined attack was made upon the very ones of which Bacon had been in dread, and it was even proposed to proceed against the referees (Bacon and Montagu) who had certified that there was no objection to them in point of law.

It is strange that the Protestant Council of Zurich, which had scarcely won its own liberty, and was still in dread of the persecution of the Romanists, should pass the decree which instituted the cruel persecution of the Anabaptists.

But the quarrel was temporarily suspended because both Gelmires and Burdino had reason to dread the extension of Urraca's authority.

It was really suggested by the political weakness of the Byzantine empire and the dread of the approach of the Turks.

Somerset's fall in the following October endangered Hooper's position, and for a time he was in hourly dread of imprisonment and martyrdom, more especially as he had taken a prominent part against Gardiner and Bonner, whose restoration to their sees was now anticipated.

The English rule, if often weak, had never proved tyrannical, and they had a great dread of French taxes and French officialism.

On the other hand, dread of the Roman Catholics was a living force.

As we have already said, dread of the peril to the constitution from the new aims of George III.

His adherence to the traditions of 1848 are also seen in his dread of Russia, which he maintained to his death.

The decision of the senate on the 18th of May 1804, giving him the title of emperor, was the counterblast to the dread N I he had excited.

The princes had cause to dread him; for Yusuf, the leader of a religious movement still in its first zeal, was known to have no friendly feeling for their religious indifference and elegant, dissipated habits.

The loose and barren rule of the Confederation seemed to conservative minds such as Hamilton's to presage, in its strengthening of individualism, a fatal looseness of social restraints, and led him on to a dread of democracy that he never overcame.

With the rapid increase of population, the dread of Indian and Spaniard declined.

I guess you have to inform them but I dread listening to Quinn bitch and moan.

Suddenly ravenous, she quickened her step despite her dread of meeting one of the elitist mates.

Happiness should be all I feel but a strange sense of dread is overwhelming any feeling of contentment as I enter this stately home.

I plan well what I will say when we are together, but dread of so burdening this dear and gentle man with the troubled future before us causes me to only hold him close and retain my silence.

In fact, her emotion at the moment would better be described as uncomfortable – if not outright dread.

Taran's gait slowed as he approached, dread sinking into his stomach.

Every moment they per- ceived some friend floating around them for a while -- then sinking into the dread abyss to rise no more.

This holy awe or dread has never touched their spirits.

I had the dread that others would dub me as someone who simply didn't belong within this assemblage of young Bohemians.

Who would have thought those three little words could inspire dread to mums on maternity leave.

Potential excellent reward for faultless maintenance was abruptly replaced by nameless dread.

Having regard to circles wherein sacrificial rites were observed, a slab of stone was a conspicuous object in that dread ceremonial.

The dread curve of Michael Corleone's life, which provided a dramatic spine for the family saga, has lost its sinister bend.

I looked at Ward again, and he had thrown off his dread solemnity and was laughing also.

Infection followed operations almost as a matter of course and the dread scourge 'hospital gangrene ' spread from one ward to another like wildfire.

Herodotus, owing to his religious awe and dread of divulging sacred mysteries, is only a second-rate source.

He was an eye-witness on more than one occasion of the folly and excesses of the French Revolution; and these scenes not only increased his love for his church, but strongly impressed him with that dread of anarchy, of popular movements ending in bloodshed, and of communistic and socialistic views which characterized him in after life.

Men do not eat an animal for which they have a reverential dread, or if they eat it at all, it is only in a sacramental feast and in order to absorb into themselves its life and holy properties.

In the Cold War, the constant dread of nuclear war was a fact of life.

I rather dread him writing about the queer stuff.

She is the kind of person ministers dread because they are so persistent.

But the modern student of ethics, even if he remains sane, remains sane from an insane dread of insanity.

It is true that Puritan austerity and the lack of any strong central authority after Oliver's death produced a reaction which temporarily restored Charles's dynasty to the throne; but it is not less true that the execution of the king, at a later time when all over Europe absolute monarchies "by divine right" were being established on the ruins of the ancient popular constitutions, was an object lesson to all the world; and it produced a profound effect, not only in establishing constitutional monarchy in Great Britain after James II., with the dread of his father's fate before him, had abdicated by flight, but in giving the impulse to that revolt against the idea of "the divinity that doth hedge a king" which culminated in the Revolution of 1789, and of which the mighty effects are still evident in Europe and beyond.

Yet the " Five Dissenting Brethren " would have failed to secure toleration even for themselves as Congregationalists - such was the dread felt by the assembly for Anabaptists, Antinomians, and other " sectaries " - had it not been for the vaguer, but widespread Independency existing in parliament and in the army.

Much controversy had raged over the conflicting principles of the equal representation of states and of representation on the basis of numbers, the larger states advocating the latter, the smaller states the former principle; and those who made themselves champions of the rights of the states professed to dread the tyrannical power which an assembly representing population might exert.

Hence also the universal reverence paid to serpents (raga) since those early days; though whether it simply arose from the superstitious dread inspired by the insidious reptile so fatal to man in India, or whether the verbal coincidence with the name of the once-powerful nonAryan tribe of Nagas had something to do with it must remain doubtful.

For I was 10th at first dash to tell you that I had lately received a letter from him so surprising to me for the inconsistency of every part of it, as to be put into great disorder by it, from the concernment I have for him, lest it should arise from that which of all mankind I should least dread from him and most lament for - I mean a discomposure in head, or mind, or both.

Pushed back, as he had been in Spain, from bastion to bastion, after the action on the Beresina, Napoleon had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1809, and thenhaving refused the peace offered him by Austria at the congress of Prague, from a dread of losing Italy, where each of his victories had marked a stage in the accomplishment of his dreamon those of 1805, despite Lfltzen and Bautzen, and on those of 1802 after his defeat at Leipzig, where Bernadotte turned upon him, Moreau figured among the Allies, and the Saxons and Bavarians forsook him.

It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

The dread of the overfed that an underfed member of the community may request a seat at the table he now understood perfectly.

These would-be robbers held him in great dread; Outside the forest, scared to show a head.

If the thought of redoing your baby's nursery after a couple of years fills you with dread, then consider purchasing bedding that will grow with your child.

Add young children to your travel plans and your happy anticipation is often replaced with anxiety and your normal travel concerns can turn to outright fear and dread.

Proven to last 3 to 4 times longer than your typical mascara, it doesn't cause the typical "raccoon eyes" look so many women dread.

After awhile, your family starts to dread when you come home because you are unpleasant to be around or it's like you aren't even home.

Celebrate the holidays, don't dread them.

Right after Halloween, many people start to dread the next two months.

Emotional symptoms range from apprehension and dread to trouble concentrating, irritability, or a sense of being disconnected from oneself.

Exercise should be fun and a good challenge, rather than something you dread.

In many cases the cause of the anxiety is based on an irrational fear, or dread, of normal activities and situations of daily life.

An individual suffering from a panic attack also has a horribly overwhelming and often terrifying sense of fear or dread.

Anxiety occurs when a person is in an elevated state of fear, worry, dread, or uneasiness.

When you are in an anxious state, you are filled with feelings of uneasiness, apprehension or dread.

If you dread standing in front of your television following an exercise video, or you don't want to join a gym, there are things you can do to increase physical activity that won't make you feel like you are working out.

Treatment is available that will make you feel like yourself again and help you see life filled with opportunity rather than dread.

Though some little ones simply dread bedtime, fun bedding may occasionally change their mindsets by attracting them with fun prints and colors.

If the one thing you dread about gardening season is the feeling of being eaten alive by creepy-crawlies, you might be considering a mosquito fogger.

Because they dread shopping for appropriate swimwear, many plus sized women delay shopping for a swimsuit until late in the season when the selection is depleted.

Turning 50 does not have to be a time you dread.

If you dread the long lines at theme parks, this special pass will let you bypass the crowds and go straight to the front of the line every time.

Math. It's a subject that many people dread well into adulthood, but simple arithmetic is absolutely fundamental to proper functioning in today's society.

And finally, Metroid Dread, a side-scrolling Metroid game, is rumored to be in development for the Nintendo DS.

If you dread hopping in a boat at 5 a.m., rowing out to the local secret spot, and fighting off bugs in the morning heat, then pick up one of the following games to curb your need to suddenly fish.

Many parents dread the onset of adolescence, fearing that their child will become hostile and rebellious and begin to reject his or family.

Some patients begin to dread water because of the painful spasms that occur.

If you dread the thought of having your eyebrows waxed or plucked, it may be time to give eyebrow threading a try.

When the rocker first came on to the music scene he was known for his signature dread locs, and helped make the trend more popular among other artists and fans alike.

While many people like the distinguished and sophisticated look gray hair can bring, others dread this very visible sign of aging.

Only someone who's experienced it firsthand can possibly know the feeling of dread that accompanies a drain full of hair.

More and more men are beginning to sport longer hair styled in braids, low ponytails, cornrows or dread locks, which gives them the option of a little more hair that is still easy to maintain and has a trendier look.

Granted, a thick, full suit will be more difficult to maneuver in and out of, but it shouldn't be such an awful experience that you dread even putting it on.

There's really no reason to dread the season for its style shortcomings, though - simply because there are so many great ways to look polished, pulled together and elegant even in the face of the most dreadful weather.

The aspects of building and implementing a strategy in games such as Mancala and Dread Pirate may be too frustrating for the learning disabled child.

The Dread Pirate game capitalizes on the long-standing appeal of seafaring pirates to bring a fun and unique experience to players of all ages.

With Dread Pirate, part of the game's appeal is simply in its presentation.

Instead of a standard fold-out game board, Dread Pirate is played on an antique-look cloth "treasure map".

The first player to reach Dread Island becomes the Dread Pirate for the duration of the game, gaining an advantage in travel and skirmishes.

However, in order to travel to Dread Island, you must first collect one of each color jewel through skirmishes, raids, and trading.

The title of Dread Pirate isn't permanent, though.

Dread Pirate cards, also called fate cards, have the power to change the outcome of the game, delivering surprise events that can bring fortune or ruin to players.

Beyond the basic rules of play, Dread Pirate is open to whatever atmosphere players would like to create.

Then Dread Pirate can provide that experience.

Dread Pirate Tiddlywinks adds new fun to a traditional game.

It's a simple game for two to four players who want the fun of a Dread Pirate game without the strategy required of other games in the franchise.

For many writers, the thought of having to promote their own skills inspires a combination of fear and dread.

Sometimes, parents dread that first day so much that they inadvertently pass on those feelings to their kids.

Riding the Word Problem Game into History is a great game to take the dread out of word problems while incorporating a little history as well.

It's something that they dread and try to avoid.

Similarly, do you dread the idea of having to set up your computer?

Do you dread creating menu plans for supper?

The best plan in the world will not work if you dread each exercise session.

It's best to let a girl get used to wearing a bra without any restrictive, confining features; starting off with an uncomfortable bra is more likely to result in a negative experience and lead her to dread bra-wearing for years to come.

Whether they are words for learning or words of silliness, children's lyrics are timeless reminders of an occasion when one had nothing to dread except the end of summer vacation.

Some employees dread the annual office party and consider it a fruitless waste of time where some employees huddle together in cliques while others try to ingratiate themselves with the boss.

Disaster strikes; however, when Buttercup receives word that her beloved Wesley has met his demise by the hand of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Her words fueled the sense of dread he'd felt the past two weeks, since he'd lost contact with his closest friends.

She didn't want to disappoint him or Damian and couldn't help but dread the conversation to come.

Wynn trailed, dread growing at the pit of his stomach.

Dread was heavy in Gabriel's stomach.

Dread crept into Deidre.

Lana looked back at the generator, dread in the pit of her stomach.

With each day it seemed to be growing until now she had a feeling of dread when she entered the living room.

Dread stirred at the pit of her stomach.

Dread was at the base of her stomach.

The states beyond the Balkan now began to dread the advance of the Turks; at the instigation of the pope an allied army of 60,000 Serbs, Hungarians, Walachians and Moldavians attacked Lala Shahin.

The best-known accounts of Cirey life, those of Madame de Grafigny, date from the winter of 1738-39; they are somewhat spiteful but very amusing, depicting the frequent quarrels between Madame du Chatelet and Voltaire, his intense suffering under criticism, his constant dread of the surreptitious publication of the Pucelle (which nevertheless he could not keep his hands from writing or his tongue from reciting to his visitors), and so forth.

This dread of pestilence, united with a puritanic hatred of plays, made the citizens do all they could to discountenance theatrical entertainments.

In the latter case it is necessary to have reliable men with the beaters, who can exercise authority and keep them in order, for both mahouts and elephants have the greatest dread of the huge brute, who appears to be much more formidable than he really is."

They were known to be only a comparatively small minority of the population, and though they had been cruelly persecuted, they had suffered without a thought of resistance- Dread of the dissenters, therefore, had become a mere chimaera, which only those could entertain whose minds were influenced by prejudice.

And this anger and disgust were exasperated by the dread with which certain proceedings in England had inspired him, that the aims, principles, methods and language which he so misdoubted or abhorred in France were likely to infect the people of Great Britain.

Even the name of God is not once mentioned, perhaps from a dread of its profanation during the Saturnalia of Purim.

Little conspiracies were got up to displace him, and might have succeeded but for an unconquerable dread of the weapon that destroyed Peel.

Similarly on land, the post it occupied between northern Greece and the Peloponnese materially influenced its relation to other states, both in respect of its alliances, such as that with Thessaly, towards which it was drawn by mutual hostility to Boeotia, which lay between them; and also in respect of offensive combinations of other powers, as that between Thebes and Sparta, which throughout an important part of Greek history were closely associated in their politics, through mutual dread of their powerful neighbour.

Foreign statesmen who flattered themselves that France was sinking into anarchy and therefore into decay were content to follow their respective ambitions without the dread of French interference.

For as for poverty, painful toil, disrepute, and such evils as men dread most, these, he argued, were positively useful as means of progress in spiritual freedom and virtue.

Neither temples nor images (except small figures worn as amulets) occur among the people of the south-east; but they have a great dread of departed spirits, especially those of the hostile inland tribes, and of a being called Vata, who causes disease and death.

The powers of nature - thunder, lightning and storm, all supposed to be caused by evil and angry spirits - are held in the greatest dread.

These limp jokes server only to dump me out of the games carefully calibrated dread machine.

Panic had swept from city to city, and a vague dread of some sudden collapse preyed upon the minds of millions.

The embodiment of the lesser forces of the universe who inspired dread, the threat of our own damnation.

They flee the error of presuming on God only to fall into the trap of being gripped by an anxious dread of God.

It is no less than a cure for the dread disease of hydrophobia in man and of rabies in animals; and the interest of the achievement is not only that he successfully combated one of the most mysterious and most fell diseases to which man is subject, but also that this was accomplished in spite of the fact that the special microbe causing the disease had not been isolated.

The decay of the woollen industry at Tavistock was attributed by the inhabitants in 1641 to the dread of the Turks at sea and of popish plots at home.

Not without nervous dread - witness the special taboo to which the leader of society is subject - he draws near and strives to constrain, conciliate or cajole the awful forces with which the life of the group is set about.

In a prayer addressed to " First birth of my birth, first beginning (or principle) of my beginning, first spirit of the spirit in me," he prays " to be restored to his deathless birth (genesis), albeit he is let a.nd hindered by his underlying nature, to the end that according to the pressing need and spur of his longing he may gaze upon the deathless principle with deathless spirit, through the deathless water, through the solid and the air; that he may be re-born through reason (or idea), that he may be consecrated, and the holy spirit breathe in"him, that he may admire the holy fire, that he may behold the abyss of the Orient, dread water, and that he may be heard of the quickening and circumambient ether; for this day he is about to gaze on the revealed reality with deathless eyes; a mortal born of mortal womb, he has been enhanced in excellence by the might of the All-powerful and by the right hand of the Deathless one," &c.

But, though he has a place among lay theologians, dread of ecclesiastical impediment to free inquiry, added to strong inclination for scientific investigation, made him look to medicine as his profession, and before 1666 we find him practising as a physician in Oxford.

Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself falling asleep, but suddenly, almost with the distinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling of horror and dread of death seized him.

But now that the moment had come she was filled with dread of what she might see.

The dread curve of Michael Corleone 's life, which provided a dramatic spine for the family saga, has lost its sinister bend.

Home owners who participate and swap rooms often express either appreciation or dread when they hear that one of these designers will be working in their homes.

It may be that one time that you choose to ignore a skin change that could be the unfortunate event we all dread.

Dread trickled through her.

As much as I dread it.

Rather than dread at what lie ahead of him, he felt nothing but anger.

Gabriel felt something heavier than dread in his stomach.

She listened, dread fluttering through her, and sipped her wine.

The presentation of some object of dread, for example, to the eye has or may have a double effect.

Dread of the Turks and dread of Spain were the two terrors which haunted Venice till the republic fell.

He believed that the jealousy of Russian aggrandizement and the dread of Russian power were absurd exaggerations.

Isolated fireballs and star showers had been occasionally observed, but instead of being attentively watched they had been neglected, for their apparitions had filled mankind with dread, and superstition attributed to them certain malevolent influences.

It is easily tamed; and such is the dread of it common to all murine animals that not one will approach a house where it is domiciled."

How can they have been the " awful mysteries," the " dread and terrible canons," the " mystic teachings," the " ineffable sentences," the " oracles too sacred to be committed to writing " which the homilists of that age pretend them to have been?

But, at the last moment, the dread of another Muscovite invasion made them more pliable and, at a Polish diet held at Warsaw from November 1563 to June 1564, which the Lithuanians attended, the question of an absolute union was hotly debated.

He was awaiting Prince Andrew's return with dread and went every day to the old prince's for news of him.

In contrast with the dread felt by the infantrymen placed in support, here in the battery where a small number of men busy at their work were separated from the rest by a trench, everyone experienced a common and as it were family feeling of animation.

Dread sank into her belly as she entered the shadow world and crossed to the glowing doorway.

Immobilized, she waited with panicked dread for an attack like Sasha's.

Gabriel.s voice startled her, and dread settled deeper into her stomach.

Dread sinking into her stomach, Jessi obeyed, the other thugs trailing her.

The Mahrattas generally follow Siva and his wife, a dread goddess known under many names.

And in the other states of Europe there existed, more or less, a similar desire for peace and an equal dread of a fresh outbreak of revolutionary violence.

What many children think of with dread, as a painful plodding through grammar, hard sums and harder definitions, is to-day one of my most precious memories.

Women don't normally dread climbing into bed with me.

Euler's eulogium was enhanced by his desire to quit Berlin, d'Alembert's by his dread of a royal command to repair thither; and the result was that an invitation, conveying the wish of the "greatest king in Europe" to have the "greatest mathematician" at his court, was sent to Turin.

The dread and guilt at the pit of her stomach were countered by the confusion of knowing that she'd fallen into the grip of the Immortal laws first with Gabriel then with Darkyn.

Again, the army was morally weakened by a haunting dread of treason, and some of the chiefs, Ney for example, took the field with disturbing visions of the consequences of their late betrayal of the Bourbon cause, in case of Napoleon's defeat.