We found 34 examples of how to use dread in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 34.
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| 1. | Why do you think animals dread fire? | |
| 2. | Cats have a dread of water. | |
| 3. | He may dread to learn the results. | |
| 4. | He is in constant dread of his father. | |
| 5. | They live in constant dread of floods. | |
| 6. | There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. | |
| 7. | When in Sydney, I went one Sunday morning to bathe. I was accompanied by a friend who had just arrived from the South Sea Islands. He was very timid, and clung to the rock, never going beyond a few yards from it, and instantly returning. Upon rallying him, he confessed his great dread of sharks. | |
| 8. | What I dread most is to get into a rut. | |
| 9. | My writing desk, a place of dread: an incredible number of incredibly useful drawers - combined with incredibly little legspace. | |
| 10. | Shortly afterwards her father came to see her and found her quite happy, and he felt much less dread of her fate at the hands of the Beast. | |
| 11. | I will tell you all, sir. Do not imagine that my agitation on behalf of my son arises from any fear lest he should have had a hand in this terrible affair. He is utterly innocent of it. My dread is, however, that in your eyes and in the eyes of others he may appear to be compromised. | |
| 12. | Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread Being with whom they were face to face, while the two voices—the one thin and clear, the other deep and harsh—united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness. | |
| 13. | A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. | |
| 14. | And when the feast was sped, / their missing friends in converse they require, / doubtful to deem them, betwixt hope and dread, / alive or out of hearing with the dead. | |
| 15. | Here, with her hundred daughters, pale with dread, / poor Hecuba and all her female train, / as doves, that from the low'ring storm have fled, / and cower for shelter from the pelting rain, / crouch round the silent gods, and cling to them in vain. | |
| 16. | Dread shapes and forms terrific loomed in sight, / and hostile deities, whose faces frowned / destruction. | |
| 17. | "Loathed have I lived and useless, since the day / when man's great monarch and the God's dread sire / breathed his avenging blast and scathed me with his fire." | |
| 18. | But gladly sire Anchises hails the sign, / and gazing upward through the starlit air, / his hands and voice together lifts in prayer: / "O Jove omnipotent, dread power benign, / if aught our piety deserve, if e'er / a suppliant move thee, hearken and incline / this once, and aid us now and ratify thy sign." | |
| 19. | Soon, where Leucate lifts her cloud-capt head, / looms forth Apollo's fane, the seaman's name of dread. | |
| 20. | "One alone, / Celaeno, sings of famine foul and dread, / a nameless prodigy, a plague unknown. / What perils first to shun? what path to tread, / to win deliverance from such toils?" | |
| 21. | "Far better round Pachynus' point to steer, / though long the course, and tedious the delay, / than once dread Scylla to behold, or hear / the rocks rebellow with her hell-hounds' bay." | |
| 22. | Sami made Layla dread being around him. | |
| 23. | Lord, by the stripes which wounded Thee, From death’s dread sting Thy servants free, That we may live, and sing to Thee: Alleluia! | |
| 24. | And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. | |
| 25. | Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed. |