How to use "dread" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dread" in popular movie and book plots

  • Clint has a strong feeling of dread and tells the others to join him.  - Cooties (film)
  • He sends gifts to the women, and Evelyn feels dread and regret towards her engagement with him.  - Evelyn's Husband
  • 6 million to Munni (Neha Dhupia), a dread female gangster who hates men.  - Phas Gaye Re Obama
  • Sookie realizes with dread that she will never be free of Eric's control.  - All Together Dead
  • There are the reluctant parents, who dread the thought of leaving the home they've lived in for decades.  - En Bloc
  • He becomes fabled as a mighty and dread necromancer and sorcerer, but is still driven to avenge himself on Zotulla.  - The Dark Eidolon
  • The young couple dread the next day, which comes all too soon.  - A Bride of the Plains
  • All we know at this point is that the narrator is feeling a sense of dread enough to keep him awake.  - Dog Star (short story)
  • Both women dread their prospects, as Mary is now 60 and Rhoda is around 58 and lacks confidence in her work as a photographer.  - Mary and Rhoda
  • She mentions one prediction told to Laomedon long ago; "Stone on stone will ever fall, at the dread Earth-Shaker's call".  - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
  • It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited.  - The Strange High House in the Mist
  • He then has 90 days to find the dread Night Stallion, ruler of the gourd world, and negotiate to void the lien.  - Ogre, Ogre
  • Joe Sam’s superstitious dread of the panther irritates domineering Curt.  - Track of the Cat
  • A gloomy wood is seen as a voice is heard, narrating: Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black unfathomable lakes.  - The Brides of Dracula
  • Gringrin in turn loses his dread of death, and walks happily into the Valley.  - Isle of the Dead (Zelazny novel)
  • Imprisoned, Rubashov is at first relieved to be finished with the anxiety of dread during mass arrests.  - Darkness at Noon

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