Example Sentences

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The film’s first two acts follow Wetzler and Rosenberg as they disappear from sight and hide for days in a nightmarishly claustrophobic, plank-covered ditch awaiting their best chance to break out of the camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

But with each foray, it became clearer that the planet was nightmarishly ill suited for future human exploration.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2021

She hopes that it will banish the recurring stress dream she has where she materializes, nightmarishly, back in her old high school.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 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

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