dreading

Meaning

of Dread

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Phrases with the word

Examples

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed. Robert Silverberg

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines. John Frusciante

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go. Suzanne Collins

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. William Butler Yeats

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. Dorothy Dix

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that. Lennie James