Sentence examples for as if in a nightmare from inspiring English sources

Atieno let out one short eerie scream, as if in a nightmare, then went back to sleep.

The python slid among the chair legs, and, as if in a nightmare, I fell right in front of it.

The leading five have sprinted clear and the poor mite Brownlee is running through treacle as if in a nightmare.

As if in a nightmare, she donned the surgical gown and prepared the chloroform.

For this, one has to turn to the two men themselves, as when Harriman confides in a letter to his wife, "It has been as if living in a nightmare, with some calamity hanging constantly over one's head".

I wonder what I'd do if I came to – sweating, as if from a nightmare – strapped in an apron in the Masterchef kitchen.

"It was as if I were in a nightmare," she wrote in the last entry in her diary.

They chopped off his what?" "Just tell me one thing — you don't have a dog, right?" The following week, feeling as if I am in a nightmare in which I am taking a college exam for a course I never meant to take, I report to Ms. Williams at her two-bedroom apartment on upper Park Avenue.

He writes, as if describing a nightmare: "It's the 1960s.

Wajda takes us into the Communist period, and only at the very end of the movie, as if recalling a nightmare that had been suppressed by everyone, does he show us what actually happened in 1940.

It is an intersection I drive through now, as if in a dream of nightmare repetition, in which my very grief is rebuked: You might have died here!