Example Sentences

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Since her portfolio lost more than $80,000 in 2007, Sue Patterson has dreaded opening her investment statements.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2010

All his years, he has dreaded the necessity to extemporize.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has borne stoically the very unwelcome burdens of her husband's position, and she has dreaded the possibility that he would run again.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no mistake now as to the change in her face—the change that he has dreaded and yet known would come—the hardening of eye and tightening of lip.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Something of the happiness of danger or pain that one has dreaded and finds, in actual truth, give way before one's resolution—but more, again, than that.

From The Dark Forest by Walpole, Hugh, Sir