Sentence examples for a time of dread from inspiring English sources

But for an equal number of people it's a time of dread, weighed down by pouffy dresses, ill-timed rain showers and cringe after cringe spawned from lame toasts.

"LA RENTRÉE", the start of the academic year, is a time of dread and hope for pupils.

"Unless you've got a big return coming your way, tax season can be a time of dread for people across the country," said Jared Drinkwater, Pizza Hut's vice president of marketing.

The season of the tax, when payment fell due, was a time of "horror, dread and misery," Goitein wrote.

Afterschool was a time of evasion and dread, of postponing my friends' inevitable peek inside our house for as long as I could.

For Kelli Peters, it was a time of self-consciousness and dread.

During this time of dread, strangely, he poured out a series of chamber works, some of the most peaceful, idyllic music that he ever composed.

"A dread, a time-watching dread, about getting to the theatre on time.

(Or at the very least, have a sneaking sense of dread every time you look into a bathroom mirror late at night).

Does he secretly wish for "something" — even something "frightening" — to happen, to break this seemingly idyllic (but with a hint of dread) stoppage of time?

Does he secretly wish for "something"—even something "frightening"—to happen, to break this seemingly idyllic (but with a hint of dread) stoppage of time?