Example Sentences

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With each subsequent mission, it became clearer this exercise in interplanetary one-upmanship was over a world nightmarishly ill-suited for future human exploration.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2021

The full-back, so often the scourge of the Scots, slid to deal with the loose ball but then nightmarishly allowed it squirm from his grip.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2021

The recording process was nightmarishly complicated, and not just because of Wi-Fi failures and video freezes.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

Her character Jean is a nightmarishly frank parent, for whom oversharing does not exist, and Anderson has run with it.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2019

A vault of stars hangs overhead; the collective breath of the cadets mingles slowly, nightmarishly above the courtyard.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr