In a sentence
Six example sentences with dread, each labelled with its topic.
The score holds a single low note under the empty hallway, and the dread builds before anything appears.
Movies
Patients often describe Sunday evening dread, a heaviness that arrives hours before the working week actually begins.
Psychology
Poe fills the opening pages with dread, so the reader flinches at a knock that never comes.
Literature
Horror games build dread with sound alone, letting a distant creak do more than any monster on screen.
Gaming
Analysts felt a growing dread before the earnings call, since the guidance had been cut twice already that year.
Finance
The dread of leg day sets in on Wednesday night, long before the first squat is loaded.
Fitness
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