How to Use dread in a Sentence

dread

1 of 2 verb

• I dread the thought of moving next week.
• I dread to think about what they might do next.
• He can't swim and dreads going in the water.
• I dread the day I will have to leave my friends.
• She dreaded making speeches in front of large audiences.
• Many people dread the 14th day of the second month of the year.
  — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Other teams used to dread trying to run against the Aztecs.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• While some love to play host, others dread the day and the work that comes with it.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 17 Nov. 2023
• The banks have plenty to dread from the reporting rule.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Many parents of these kids come to dread feeding time and sleep time.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2021
• Even the dogs that dread bath time the most can't complain about this adorable and colorful look.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 13 May 2022
• Not so long ago, women were taught to dread going gray.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 8 July 2021
• Yet even those who dread remote teaching may accept the need for more of it.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
• And then, come Sunday, you’re left dreading the work week ahead.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Faubion said people need not dread their middle and post-menopausal years.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• But since losing the hearing in her left ear in 2005, she's come to dread being in airports.
  — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
• Still, the documentary is so vivid as to instill dread at the thought of all the gatherings to come.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
• Some dread the return of business travel or the end of remote work.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• What came next were three words dreaded by pitchers around the world: Tommy John surgery.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023
• What supply chain manager doesn’t dread getting the news that the goods are not going to show up at the dock on time?
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The pain is so severe that the 67-year-old, born Paul Hudson, spends most of his days curled up in bed, dreading the arrival of the next wave.
  — Kyle Eustice, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2023
• Aside from the fateful signs of hair thinning, many people also dread gray hair.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• She was left with the last resort that so many families dread: calling the police.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• Many people dread the blaring sound of an alarm clock, signaling the start of a busy workday.
  — Alexa Mikhail, CNN, 14 June 2022
• That’s why McCarthy and other coaches dread the hours leading up to the deadline.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
• Though most kids might dread having a teacher for a neighbor, Mr. Feeny, played by William Daniels, was the exception to the rule.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
• Yet, lurking in the background are both hope and dread that fundamental change may not be far away.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 23 June 2023
• Many CEOs are afraid of their board members and dread the mandatory meetings.
  — Michael Hoffman, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Daylight Saving Time kicks in this weekend, as most Americans dread when the time change will spring forward or fall back.
  — Jennifer Sangalang, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2024
• Some of her former students and faculty friends began to dread running into her.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024

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dread

2 of 2 noun

• The news about the war fills me with dread.
• She has a dread of failure.
• He }lives with the constant dread of rejection.
• They live in constant dread of another attack.
• She awaited her punishment with dread.
• From the first minute, The Whale is suffused with dread.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
• And yet, the Danes don’t face the same sort of dread on a Sunday night.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
• The thought of going through that again at age 53 filled her with dread.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• And given what we've been told, we're filled with the same dread as Beau.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2023
• And if the idea of going to a bike shop still fills you with dread, then don’t go to a bike shop.
  — Christie Fitzpatrick, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
• And hopefully that adds to the dread of, 'Is this going to be the big death of this movie?
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• The dancers themselves, of course, also will convey the dread of the story.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2022
• What never goes away, though, is the dread about the cancer that future probes will find.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• But my eyes brushed over her and then stuck, just a few moments after the mid-shift dread rose up in me.
  — Hazlitt, 19 Apr. 2023
• That's probably bringing a bit of dread on right then and there.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• The call filled Egyptians with dread: Whom would the police stop, who would disappear, who would pay the price?
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2022
• Yet there doesn’t seem to be the same sense of pervasive dread that there was in the seventies and eighties.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• The only thing predictable about Fuse is how strong the songs are, facing up to adult angst and modern dread.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
• Many of us know the dread of a phone battery on 1 percent and the panic of watching its screen flicker out.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Police described the suspect as a Black man around 6 feet tall and 190 pounds, with long black dreads, the statement said.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• For some of us, a feeling of dread this time of year is nearly as inevitable as overeating.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Leg day filled me with dread until one of my trainers told me that the key was embracing the challenge of it.
  — Jesse Hicks, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• All-Stars, who have built a career on reinterpreting rock for the dread set.
  — Patricia Meschino, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
• Residents like Lamar Mabry live with the dread of what the pollution may be doing to them.
  — Shane Loeffler, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2022
• If scheduling plans with them fills you with a sense of dread rather than excitement, take that as a sign.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 31 Mar. 2023
• The film builds a hypnotic momentum, along with a quiet sense of dread that sneaks up on you.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• In 1989, Gerald Howard had been a book editor for about ten years, and his future filled him with dread.
  — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• When Maureen went missing in 2007, her sister was filled with dread.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2023
• Even the most veteran players have begun to feel a sense of dread in the pit of their stomachs when a lead begins to slip away.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• Which shows, perhaps, that this task has taken on an outsize level of dread.
  — Justin Scuiletti, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024