Example Sentences

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For four years, the public has been dreading seeing, or hoping to see, a repeat performance.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2020

The country has not suffered attacks on the same scale as France or Belgium, but the police have foiled several plots and the country has been dreading that it, too, could become a target.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016

And, finally, for a trip back to his fungo Fatima and a game of catch with the one man he has been dreading and dying to meet.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't think the Panamanian government is going to get all the attacks it has been dreading.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, indeed, is the real clanger his young master has been dreading, and which for the time engrosses all his thoughts.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne