The phrase "a source of dread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes fear or anxiety.
Example: "The dark, abandoned house at the end of the street has always been a source of dread for the neighborhood children."
Alternatives: "a cause of fear" or "a wellspring of anxiety."
A creature once seen as a source of dread is now seen as a top priority for conservation.
In his early short film, "The Alphabet," verbal learning is a source of dread: a young girl is terrorized by the letters of the alphabet as she sleeps.
We just couldn't comfortably live in that flat anymore; even if it was going to be noise-free, bumping into the neighbours was a source of dread.
Mr Burstow said in his speech: "For many, the thought of residential care is a source of dread, an unwelcome last resort.
To other parents, sales season is a source of dread, when work schedules conspire to keep them from chaperoning their children for after-school sales calls while boxes and order forms consume the weekends.
That is why the house always has an advantage.In a sense, the craps seven is a suitable metaphor for the Las Vegas weddings on which you reported: initially a cause for great joy, but soon thereafter a source of dread and remorse.Tim KleimanNew York.
But Argentines also awoke to the realization that the team would still be coached by Mr. Maradona, the soccer idol known worldwide simply as Maradona, whose brilliant playing career made him a national hero but whose erratic tenure as coach has become a source of national dread.
Because happiness is now considered more an entitlement than a pursuit among citizens of prosperous countries, unhappiness has become a sign of failure, of weakness, and a prime source of dread.
Don't get me wrong, efforts to address the indignity of period poverty are indeed laudable, and make a real difference to people whose monthly cycles are a persistent source of dread and shame due to something as arbitrary as money.
For Mr. Higgins, a New York Times photographer who grew up in the small town of New Brockton, Ala., age was a source of inspiration, not dread, and he wants to create positive emblems for it.
I was wearing corduroy overalls, and in the front of them my mother had cut a slit so that I could go to the bathroom without needing help with the straps — a clever innovation that, to me, was a source of embarrassment and dread.
