Example Sentences

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A nationwide crop assessment is underway and authorities are dreading the results, with the number needing help likely to skyrocket, said the WFP’s Erdelmann.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2024

If you are dreading having to cook your family's Christmas Day dinner then you are definitely not alone.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2021

I think a lot of people are dreading the emergence of the cicadas because we’re just dealing with so much already this year.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2021

If you have embraced being outdoors as a way to deal with pandemic stress and are dreading the arrival of winter, you might consider cultivating two things: a new attitude and a better cold-weather wardrobe.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2020

“Thank you, my dear. Incidentally, that thing you are dreading — it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling