Sentence examples for an object of dread from inspiring English sources

It roams through all temperate and tropical seas, and everywhere is an object of dread.

Buried in the pile of colorful junk mail advertising realtors and cheap toilet paper lies an object of dread: a summons to jury duty.

Snakes have been a motif in human culture and religion and an object of dread and fascination all over the world.

It is a tiny but wondrous object of dread.

In "One Missed Call," the object of dread is the cellphone -- not any one cellphone, but the system of wireless communication itself, which becomes a kind of superhighway for the transmission of bad karma.

So this is what the world has come to: Mail-o-phobia and mall-o-phobia -- not that it's terribly hard to find other everyday objects of dread.

But when people spill into the abyss, they discover that they aren't allowed to be extremely unhappy as a chronic thing, either, and become the object of impatience, dread and fear – fear that their hopelessness is contagious, as in the case of the bus driver who ran over the soccer star.

No matter how much time passes, those objects of childhood dread are difficult to see anew.

He felt an overwhelming sense of dread.

Beneath the veneer of tranquillity, a feeling of dread prevails.

Awaits with a sense of dread his expected letter.