Sentence for dread | Use dread in a sentence

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  • I dread! (10)
  • Dread Power! (10)
  • I dread fire-arms. (10)
  • I dread that room. (10)
  • They named their dread of it. (10)
  • At times she felt a sting of dread. (12)
  • She had no dread of these two months. (4)
  • And this belief produced another dread. (4)
  • It is not for me that I dread his coming. (10)
  • I dread the idea of the curtain going down. (10)
  • He is the prince of men: I dread to say, mine! (10)
  • Southward, across the park, the dread house rose. (10)
  • If once you have it, all that you dread comes true. (12)
  • Up the dread heights the English soldiers clambered. (19)
  • That glance at her before she saw him renewed his dread. (8)
  • By degrees, a buried dread in his brain threw off its shroud. (10)
  • Seen of his dread, she is to his blank eye The eyeless Ghost. (10)
  • I am, I confess, a poltroon in my affections; I dread changes. (10)
  • What is the meaning of that dread of one example of tolerance? (10)
  • I dread the look of those men; I shall have to shake their hands! (10)
  • She had nothing to dread from midnight assassins or drunken gallants. (4)
  • I know you will soon call on her; she is living in dread of the visit. (4)
  • Our intermittent ague, known as dread of invasion, was over the land. (10)
  • They stop not short of the uttermost when they are on the wings of dread. (10)
  • And Bhanavar knew that the dread of a mishap was on the mind of the Chief. (10)
  • On the other hand, he had a dread of London, and Dahlia was surpassingly fair. (10)
  • For the first few days she was in dread of meeting, seeing, or hearing of Alvan. (10)
  • I affected to fear climate, and to dread the effect of the tropics upon my health. (6)
  • She had no more dread, no bitterness, and no remorse for what she was going to do. (8)
  • They dread to grant distinctions, and to judge of us discerningly is beyond them. (10)
  • A press of hideous impulse urged to speak: A novel dread of man enchained her dumb. (10)
  • Poor Thorpe is in town: I dread the sight of him; his honest heart would feel so much. (4)
  • Utter languor and the dread of looking at her eyelids in the glass kept her prostrate. (10)
  • His image arose, and she felt within her breast the faint beating of the wings of dread. (12)
  • And once more there shot through the Colonel a vague dread, as of a trusteeship neglected. (8)
  • He looked upon her lovely hands, rosy in the glow of the flames, and felt a dread for her. (12)
  • The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling. (4)
  • Through Gyp passed a quiver of dread, a vague return of the feelings once inspired by Rosek. (8)
  • My days are monotonous, but if I have a dread, it is that there will be an alteration in them. (10)
  • Cecilia laid her hand on an urn, in dread of the next words from either of the persons present. (10)
  • They had burned the food of the Mohawks, who they knew must now feel the dread pangs of hunger. (19)
  • His wealth was counted, multiplied by the ready naughts of those who know little and dread much. (10)
  • You are assured that the dread of shame, if not emulation, is making him equally wary and alert. (10)
  • She was one of those people who believe that if you dread harm enough it is less likely to happen. (9)
  • Dread of being signalized as the Foolish Young Fellow prevented Richard from expostulating further. (10)
  • Robert listened with a calculating seriousness of manner that quieted her physical dread of his passion. (10)
  • She would have asked her friend to come in the morning next day, but for the dread of deepening her blush. (10)
  • The signal is given; it is the dread Indian war-whoop; the next moment doors and windows are driven inwards. (19)
  • Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. (10)
  • Having disburthened my conscience of this dread, I finished my breakfast, and set out on a stroll through the town. (6)
  • But during these days of dread the woman went her way calmly, serenely, prepared, outwardly at least, for any event. (13)
  • Face after face, stolid and apathetic, expressed nothing, no active desire, certainly no enthusiasm, hardly any dread. (8)
  • He met Victor, and, between his dread of him and the counsels of a position subject to stripes, he was a genial thaw. (10)
  • The usual temporary wonderment flew round the table; and this number was courted in dread, avoided with apprehension. (10)
  • Nothing said he of the sorceries of Goorelka, and I, not wishing to provoke the Princess, suffered his dread to exist. (10)
  • She would have fled from him, but a dread of the displeasure of the Chief restrained her, knowing Ruark a soul of wrath. (10)
  • Yet the dread of a separation from her has kept me at these pastimes for a considerable period beyond my relish of them. (10)
  • Alarm dislodged anger from his jealous heart, and dread of evil put a thousand questions to him that were answered in air. (10)
  • The scarcely curving breasts with their rosy blossoms had a sweet loveliness of form that filled him with dread and with pain. (12)
  • My Freinds are all alarmed for me; They fear my declining health; they lament my want of spirits; they dread the effects of both. (4)
  • Had Lady Racial joined the smile and spoken with animation afterwards, the Countess would have shuddered and had chills of dread. (10)
  • No sooner did she hear that Anthony had been, by supposition, seen, than the little light of secret dread flamed a panic through her veins. (22)
  • Victor thought, and he garrotted the unruly mind of a man really feeling devoutness in the presence of the shadow thrown by the dread Shade. (10)
  • But with his amiability and dread of notoriety he remained to all appearance a well-bred, docile creature, and he kept his judgments to himself. (8)
  • Each he found springing from the unconscious love of self and the dread of the greater pain which the self-sacrificer would suffer in-forbearing the sacrifice. (9)

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