Dreaded Sentence Examples

He dreaded stepping through it.

Opening her eyes, she saw the dreaded shadow world waiting for her.

She dreaded discovering what it was until he ripped it open to display woodchips.

The voice he'd dreaded hearing finally spoke.

I dreaded the darkness and loved the woodfire.

It was a tragic love story, one she knew the end to and dreaded seeing how it came to be that way.

Next week was her last in the cabin and she dreaded going back to face him again.

She paced along the rooftop, waiting for the dreaded vision to fade.

Pele in idolatrous times was the dreaded goddess of Kilauea.

While I dreaded frightening my wife further, I knew I owed her the information on the motor home.

Dean knew Fred O'Connor was scheduled for release and that necessitated a dreaded trip to the sheriff's office.

While I suppose we were pleased Howie was moving on, we dreaded the possible ramifications.

He'd dreaded his first steps on his planet, fearing it, too, would've lost faith in him.

These last days I've begun to understand this and come to the dreaded decision of what is to become of me.

She dreaded telling them.

He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him.

I almost dreaded returning to the motel where awaited what I saw as the last thread of hope.

In the first place, the people generally dreaded the recurrence of ecclesiastical tyranny.

Suspecting it had belonged to the goddess who was Death, Wynn still wasn't expecting anyone in their right mind to revive the most dreaded of the deities.

So greatly was this dreaded by sailors that the principal line of traffic from the north of the Aegean to Athens used to pass by Chalcis and the Euboic Sea.

The four main instruments of the reaction were the papacy, which had done so much by its sympathy with the revival to promote the humanistic spirit it now dreaded, the strength of Spain, and two Spanish institutions planted on Roman soil - the Inquisition and the Order of Jesus.

A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field!

With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.

Most of these are venomous, but all are not equally dreaded.

On those who refused to submit to their decisions they had the power of inflicting severe penalties, of which excommunication from society was the most dreaded.

These legends should perhaps be interpreted as pointing to a black snake ailed muss being those most dreaded.

Many of the janissaries had married and settled on the land, forming a strongly conservative and fanatical caste, friendly to the Moslem nobles, who now dreaded the curtailment of their own privileges.

The speech is unfortunately lost, but Gibbon, who heard it, told his friend Holroyd (afterwards Earl of Sheffield) that Fox, "taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded."

Elizabeth resisted the demand, not from compassion or qualms of conscience, but because she dreaded the responsibility for Mary's death.

Nearly all men of high caste, and many of them recruited from Oudh, they dreaded tendencies which they deemed to be denationalizing, and they knew at first hand what annexation meant.

After the insurrection of 1865, he created a special bulwark for his defence, and invented that secret police which grew into the notorious "Third Section" of the emperor's own chancery, and while it lasted, was the most dreaded power in the empire.

But as the most dreaded of these Celtic tribes came down from the shores of the Baltic and Northern Ocean, the ancients applied the name Celt to those peoples who are spoken of as Teutonic in modern parlance.

Many pagan beliefs linger on in the country, where vampires, witches and the evil eye are dreaded by all.

Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake.

We want to make Ireland loyal and contented; we want to get rid of pauperism in this country; we want to fight against a class which is more to be dreaded than the holders of a 7 franchise - I mean the dangerous class in our large towns.

Hence the joint rule of Pompey and Caesar was not unwillingly .accepted, and anything like a rupture between the two was greatly dreaded as the sure beginning of anarchy throughout the Roman world.

The Boers of the Transvaal were then beginning to occupy the regions adjacent to Swaziland and in 1855 the Swazis in order to get a strip of territory between themselves and the Zulus, whose power they still dreaded, ceded to the Boers the narrow strip of land north of the Pongola river now known as the Piet Retief district.

Lord Acton, who was in complete sympathy on this subject with Ddllinger (q.v.), went to Rome in order to throw all his influence against it, but the step he so much dreaded was not to be averted.

The predominance of the Church of England was the prime article of their political creed; they dreaded the Roman Catholics; they hated and despised the dissenters.

Whatever be the truth in the assertion that death rather than sin is the enemy dreaded by Eastern Christianity, and immortality rather than forgiveness the blessing craved, it is difficult to take the talk about deification as anything more than rhetoric. Did they not start from belief in one God ?

Emin Pasha stated that the lion was so little dreaded by the Latuka that on one being caught in a leopard trap they hastily set it free.

The king and queen, however, who looked for help from abroad and especially from Leopold, dreaded a war with Austria and had no faith in the schemes of Narbonne.

The Girondins condemned the September massacres and dreaded the Parisian populace.

The dreaded name of Whiteboy was first heard in 1761; and agrarian crime has never since been long absent.

His procedure was essentially lawyer-like, for he respected the House of Commons and dreaded revolutionary violence.

Immediately on the expiration of his sentence (13th April 1713) he was instituted to the valuable rectory of St Andrew's, Holborn, by the new Tory ministry, who despised the author of the sermons, although they dreaded his influence over the mob.

In the meantime Philip II., being rid of Don John of Austria, whose ambition he dreaded, was to crush the Protestants of England and the Netherlands; and the double result of the compact at Joinville was to allow French politics to be controlled by Spain, and to transform the wars of religion into a purely political quarrel.

Amid general silence it was a formidable and much dreaded body of opinion; and in order to stifle it Louis XIV., the tool of his confessor, the Jesuit Le Tellier, made use of his usual means.

A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyedas was the custombut much dreaded.

The papacy dreaded their social even more than their dogmatic influence.

In a way he dreaded telling her the news - seeing that painful indecision in her eyes.

With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.

While I felt a secret of that magnitude couldn't remain so in an intimate relationship, I equally dreaded immersing myself so deeply into Howie's life.

Therefore, he dreaded Cynthia seeking his complicity in opposing Randy's march to glory.

With it came the dreaded conclusion they'd not come this way earlier.

Dean had arisen thousands of times in his nearly 40 years; risen to the fear of final examinations, to the anxiety of court appearances, to the dreaded knowledge there was a war going on outside.

Among these is a corn variety that is naturally resistant to the dreaded Asiatic corn borer.

These unique pools can help remedy everything from eczema to arthritis and is even good for the dreaded cellulite.

But there was worse to come, that dreaded disease cholera broke out in the camp.

You could tolerate the dreaded sodium cyanide at many millions of times the concentration.

The only dreaded disease to have been totally eradicated is smallpox, which was wiped out more than two decades ago.

My dreaded slice has gone and the ball hits the fairway every time.

They further gained lasting infamy for their supposed part in rounding up rebels for the dreaded " bloody assize " .

The last thing that Europe needs is a religious movement which would have alarming similarities with the dreaded inquisition.

Only downside of this lazy warm summer paddling is the dreaded midge.

On my way to my dreaded doom I heard a neigh.

The dreaded palmer pigweed has become Roundup resistant, Monsanto admits [21] .

However there was no sight of the much dreaded desert scorpion, spiders or snakes.

The ugly pest was the dreaded vine weevil, the most damaging weevil in horticulture.

He mentions that he dreaded the " recurrence of the full moon," which was the period generally selected for the more convenient accomplishment of such formidable excursions.

While in India the conception of the asura had veered more and more towards the dreadful and the dreaded, Zoroaster elevated it again - at the cost, indeed, of the daivas (daevas), whom he degraded to the rank of malicious powers and devils.

She dreaded the thought of civil war; and even when she had realized the necessity for decisive action the king's apathy and indecision made it impossible for her to persuade him to carry into effect Mirabeau's plan of leaving Paris and appealing to the provinces.

Later, with the army of the North, he placed before the generals the dilemma of victory over the enemies of France or trial by the dreaded revolutionary tribunal; and before the eyes of the army itself he organized a force specially charged with the slaughter of those who should seek refuge by flight.

He was early familiar with the works of Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer; he preached his Bible Studies sermons in 1878, when the higher criticism was wholly unknown to most evangelical ministers or known only to be dreaded; and his sermons on Evolution and Religion in 1885, when many of the ministry were denouncing evolution as atheistic. He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.

Because the dreaded damp comes from above, it seems like folly to redecorate without first titivating the roof and chimney-stacks.

To avoid the dreaded wilt disease, the top of the root ball should be sunk about 15cm below soil level.

Choosing the wrong style can lead to an unfortunate "wardrobe malfunction" or the dreaded visible panty line.

If you can, ask other merchants whether when you call with a problem, they get the dreaded, "Sorry, it must be your hardware" knee jerk response.

Some headboards also come with built in shelving where you can stack books, iPods and the dreaded alarm clock.

The dreaded day came where I knew it was time to buy some Crest White Strips.

Even though it lasted a really long time, flakes have fallen under my eyes, and a dreaded blue line has appeared on its crease.

Any more and you risk falling prey to the dreaded clown makeup look.

If you're constantly waging battle against the dreaded shine, you might consider adding one of these makeup removers to your regimen.

If you fear that dreaded feeling of anything foreign entering your eyes, forget about it while you're using the Bliss Lid + Lash Wash.

The main reason many amateur photographers upgrade from their handy compact digital cameras to sophisticated digital SLR versions is because they are tired of dealing with the dreaded lag time.

Candida albicans, the yeast that causes the dreaded 'yeast infection', occurs naturally on the skin and inside the gastrointestinal tract.

When the dreaded bedtime finally arrives, it's highly possible that fun bedding will draw them in a little faster and with a bit more enthusiasm than they might otherwise have, at least for a while.

She hits cars when trying to park - Not the dreaded parallel parking, just your average parking space.

Many homeowners think gutter guards will save them from the dreaded chore of cleaning their gutters.

But tying a bow tie doesn't have to be a dreaded experience.

Those dreaded black spandex bike shorts that men wear for sport.

The latter feature a rise that is far too long for a short man, causing him to hike the pants up too high or sport the dreaded "saggy crotch" look.

One of the most common men's fashion faux pas is the dreaded untucked shirt.

Rosemary also repels cabbage worms and is a good companion to beans since it repels the dreaded bean beetle.

Not only are they not appropriate for a number of occasions, but they are known to cause the dreaded "muffin top" (which can happen when the top of your stomach bulges over ill-fitting jeans).

If you're wearing the tights under a skirt, this isn't as much of an issue, but if you are wearing them as pants choose panties designed to avoid the dreaded panty line faux pas.

Don't, however, fall prey to the dreaded oversize jacket.

They are perfect at eliminating the dreaded blue light, but still transmit the true colors of red, green and yellow.

Chief among them is preventing the dreaded scratch.

Anxiety-Worry or tension in response to real or imagined stress, danger, or dreaded situations.

Toilet training is often a dreaded and frustrating task for parents.

If you keep some tips for when the tempo and lights go down in mind, slow dancing will be something to be anticipated, not dreaded.

In addition, play with your hair part and wear it several different ways to find a placement that works to disguise the dreaded outgrowth if necessary.

As summer approaches and the dreaded task of swimsuit shopping gets closer, this lively brand of sporty but sexy swimwear is definitely worth trying on.

Make sure you get the right fit so you can hide your flaws without creating new silhouette faux pas like a dreaded muffin top popping out from your bare midriff.

Delta has shared the same feelings many of us have about the dreaded swimsuit shopping experience.

The only way to wear one of these suits is to first submit to the dreaded bikini wax.

Not all bikini styles are as frightening as the dreaded string version.

A silver tri-ring ornament completes the look while eliminating the dreaded "string roll".

The Maxback allows for maximum freedom of movement and motion, while at the same time, reduces the dreaded drag.

In addition to being fit, you're also going to have to endure the dreaded bikini wax, because pulling off one of these looks requires baby smooth skin.

Or shave it all off and go for the Captain Picard look -- anything but the dreaded comb-over.

The crew who ate the citrus fruit remained healthy, while those who did not developed scurvy, leading Lind to conclude that some as yet unknown quality in the fruit prevented the dreaded disease.

This helps eliminate the dreaded waist gap that is so typical of ill-fitting jeans.

Without government monies, it is next to impossible to support the programs and research needed to find a cure for this dreaded disease.

For many singles, "Why aren't you married yet?" is a dreaded question.

Thinking of questions to ask on a first date can help prevent dreaded awkward silences that can kill chemistry.

Party games are also a useful standby for quiet moments during a party and will help to prevent a dreaded lull in the celebrations.

LoveToKnow is here to help with resources for entertainment and education to keep your children amused, productive and not uttering the dreaded phrase, "I'm bored."

Yet, on the opposing side of the argument, unless children play on a level playing field with the same means for the latest fashions and trends, uniforms can actually make school an antagonizing and dreaded experience.

Is there also historical evidence that bad things happen on the dreaded 13th?

Picking up some tax day freebies can help brighten your spirits on one of the most dreaded dates of the year, April 15.

No need to choose just one - with so many of Earth Spirit's women's shoes, it's easy to grab a pair of two and never suffer that dreaded buyer's remorse.

Unhealthy fad diets are passing trends that sometimes produce results, but often lead to the dreaded "yo-yo" dieting syndrome.

The dreaded carbohydrate has become a word synonymous with "bad" over the last few years, but the following carbohydrates list will show you it is more than just a case of good or bad.

Most fitness experts will admit to you that the most difficult push up of all is the yoga one, known by yoga practitioners as the dreaded Chaturanga Dandasana, which stands for "four limbs staff."

These underwear have very thin waistbands are high enough on the cheek to avoid the dreaded visible panty line because most have no band at the leg, but low enough to be comfortable.

And since they come in thongs, briefs, v-strings and even hiphugger styles, you can't go wrong, and you WON'T get those dreaded visible panty lines (fondly referred to as VPL's).

While there isn't a wide variety of options as far as color goes (the only option is white with black trim), this bra is quick-drying and adds shape where you want it instead of giving the dreaded flattened 'uniboob' look.

That dreaded matronly look goes right out the window when you shop at What Katie Did, especially if you grab one of their corsets as well.

Creator and founder, Sara Blakely, wanted to look great in a pair of cream colored pants, but those dreaded and unsightly "panty lines" were keeping her from doing just that.

He is often referred to as the male version of the dreaded "stage mom", carefully micromanaging every detail.

This technology was implanted by the dreaded enemy and delivers a life-changing message.

A true sign of the times, this revolutionary item puts a temporary stop to those dreaded lines.

Since the industry is positively booming with them, it's no wonder that there's such a keen interest in a product that promises to erase those dreaded lines and wrinkles for good!

You don't necessarily have to spend hours outdoors in order to earn yourself a dreaded badge of honor courtesy of a mosquito's unpleasant bite.

While there is no "cure" for the dreaded ailment, you can reduce the appearance of the spots.

Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year 1402.

He seems now to have resigned all hopes of recovering Ferghana, and as he at the same time dreaded an invasion of the Uzbegs from the west, his attention was more and more drawn towards India.

In September of the same year he was able to announce results which pointed to the means of securing immunity from the dreaded plague.

One memorable feature was associated with 1877 in that this was the last year in which the dreaded cattle plague (rinderpest) made its appearance in England.

But Parthian ambitions made it necessary for the Palmyrenes to choose one side or other, and their choice leaned towards Rome, both because they dreaded interference with their religious freedom and because the Roman emperor was further off than the Persian king.

Not only had the friars great difficulty in supporting themselves, but they dreaded an outbreak from the fanatical Turks who resented some imprudent manifestations of Loyola's zeal.

More dreaded than the frosts are the terrible burans or snowstorms, which occur in early spring and destroy thousands of horses and cattle that have been grazing on the steppes throughout the winter.

The most dreaded by the natives are called " imamba," of which there are at least eight different kinds; these snakes elevate and throw themselves forward, and have been known to pursue a horseman.

He went back to Sicily, warred with Carthage on his own account, and brought back the bones of the unburied Syracusans from Himera, but was still so dreaded that the people banished Diodes without restoring him.

The raw materials are selected with great care to assure chemical purity, but whereas in most glasses the only impurities to be dreaded are those that are either infusible or produce a colouring effect upon the glass, for optical purposes the admixture of other glass-forming bodies than those which are intended to be present must be avoided on account of their effect in modifying the optical constants of the glass.

Among reptiles the Egyptian cobra seems to be indigenous in the south, where also is found the dreaded horned viper.

Calvin consented to the death of Servetus, whose views on the Trinity he regarded as most dangerous heresy, and whose denial of the full authority of the Scriptures he dreaded as overthrowing the foundations of all religious authority.

His powers of sarcasm were a cause of terror to his adversaries, and his presence in debate was much dreaded.

As a combatant in the forefront of the war with the Christians he became a great hero in Islam, and dreaded by its enemies under his name of Barbarossa.

But he had virtu as well as fortuna; and on his tombstone it was written that he was "a second Judas Maccabaeus, whom Kedar and Egypt, Dan and Damascus dreaded."

In 395 the domineering attitude of Sparta impelled the Corinthians to conclude an alliance with Argos which they had previously contemplated on occasions of friction with the former city, as well as with Thebes and with Athens, whose commercial rivalry they no longer dreaded.

The same year saw the assembling of the States-general, which she had dreaded, the taking of the Bastille, and the events leading to the terrible days of the 5th and 6th of October at Versailles and the removal of the royal family to the Tuileries.

Murad, who had welcomed the Persian War as a good opportunity for ridding himself of the presence of the janissaries, whom he dreaded, had soon cause to fear their triumphant return.

They were dreaded as soldiers, and as individuals commanded a position resembling that of Europeans in most eastern countries.

The Hydrozoa comprise the hydroids, so abundant on all shores, most of which resemble vegetable organisms to the unassisted eye; the hydrocorallines, which, as their name implies, have a massive stony skeleton and resemble corals; the jelly-fishes so called; and the Siphonophora, of which the species best known by repute is the so-called "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia), dreaded by sailors on account of its terrible stinging powers.

They are usually much dreaded by country people, and although they are quite harmless to man, the large glands which are disposed very regularly on their smooth, shiny bodies, secrete a very active, milky poison which protects them from the attacks of many enemies.

Lee said that he had lost his right arm, and, good soldiers as were the other generals, not one amongst them was comparable to Jackson, whose name was dreaded in the North like that of Lee himself.

That Peter both hated and dreaded her was notorious.

This fact determined the stadtholder, Maurice of Nassau, to support the orthodox party - a party to which he inclined the more readily that Olden Barneveldt, the grand pensionary, the man whose uprightness and abilities he most dreaded, sided with the Remonstrants.

The Rabbis apparently dreaded the possibility of such terms becoming hypostasized into personal entities distinct from God.

To have thus worsted the dreaded Spanish infantry in open fight was a great triumph for the States troops and their general, but it was barren of results.

On the other side the road avoids the old path through the dreaded Cardinello gorge (here passed Macdonald's army in December, 1800) in order to descend by zigzags to Pianazzo.

When at length the moment, dreaded through so many years, came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind.

The Pricke of Conscience is a long religious poem, in rhyming couplets, dealing with the beginning of man's life, the instability of the world, why death is to be dreaded, of doomsday, of the pains of hell, and the joys of heaven, the two latter subjects being treated with uncompromising realism.

Meanwhile, in foreign affairs, it had become clear that for Austria the enemy to be dreaded was no longer France, but Prussia, and Kaunitz prepared the way for a diplomatic revolution, which took effect when, on the 1st of May 1 75 6, Austria and France concluded the first treaty and Seven of Versailles.

In the open desert rain falls even more rarely, but it is by no means unknown, and from time to time heavy storms burst, causing sudden floods in the narrow ravines, and drowning both men and animals These are more common in the mountainous region of the Sinai peninsula, where they are much dreaded by the Arabs.

Professor Schafer recommended the use of atropine prior to the administration of a general anaesthetic, in cases where the action of the vagus nerve upon the heart is to be dreaded; and there is little doubt of the value of this precaution, which has no attendant disadvantages, in all such cases.

Lethington, who had deserted her mother, dreaded her arrival; she forgave him, and for a time, relying on him and her brother, contrived to secure a measure of tranquillity.

The country was governed by fifty-six members of the Estate and by the dreaded commission of the General Assembly, for now the kirk dominated Scotland, denying even the right of petition to the lieges.

The visits are generally made in the night, and are often greatly dreaded, especially when there may be any supposed reason for spite on the part of the dead towards living relatives.

This wind is much dreaded by native mariners as it strikes nearly all the sheltered anchorages.

The combination suggested an alliance between the lesser knights and the peasants, dreaded by all the ruling classes.

The cobra di capello (Naia tripudians) - the name given to it by the Portuguese, from the appearance of a hood which it produces by the expanded skin about the neck - is the most dreaded.

The Saxons are not named, and the Franks appear only as a dreaded hostile power.

Seneca had seen from the first that the real danger with Nero lay in the savage vehemence of his passions, and he made it his chief aim to stave off by every means in his power the dreaded outbreak.

When the dreaded exit occurred, it happened so quickly and unexpectedly that there was no time for proper good-byes—if such biddings exist.

He saw that his championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on.

Not only could he no longer think the thoughts that had first come to him as he lay gazing at the sky on the field of Austerlitz and had later enlarged upon with Pierre, and which had filled his solitude at Bogucharovo and then in Switzerland and Rome, but he even dreaded to recall them and the bright and boundless horizons they had revealed.

You may even end up spending more than you have, which means you get the dreaded "Your card has been declined" spiel or if you happen to have savings, you see it decline every month due to overdraft charges.

Of course I agreed though I had no idea how I'd accomplish the task and dreaded even trying.

When the dreaded exit occurred, it happened so quickly and unexpectedly that there was no time for proper good-byes—if such biddings exist.

My beautiful bride labored to the end, administrating to the fallen and the flu stricken souls of our town until she too, fell to the scourge of this most dreaded disease.

She dreaded entering, wanting a moment of peace before being confined within the spartanly furnished room with the manic Arnie Smith.

This duoregnum proved even more injurious to Hungary than the dreaded interregnum.

Spiders are also represented by a large number of genera and species, the most dreaded being the venomous " tarantula " and the savage " mygale."

The facts drifted in slowly, as if attending a dreaded meeting.

She stood over me, giving me little choice though I dreaded the chore.

It was believed that its object was the introduction of the dreaded form of the Inquisition established in Spain, and in any case more systematic and stringent measures for the stamping out of heresy.