Dread has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |