Sentence examples for dread of becoming from inspiring English sources

He had said repeatedly that before he found Gorongosa he had lived in dread of becoming "a dabbler".

As deftly as Romney plays the self-deprecating bridesmaid, he is open about his dread of becoming irrelevant.

And he comes to understand his own dread of becoming an engineer and his inability to speak honestly to his father.

Horror movies, stories and jokes reflect our deep-seated dread of becoming food for other forms of life : horror is the wormy corpse, vampires sucking blood and sci-fi monsters trying to eat humans ("Alien 1 and 2").

A wife who dreaded any thought of becoming a widow.

How he dreaded the idea of becoming immobilized and unable to escape the prison of sitting.

Using his facial contortions and an affected stammer for varied comic purposes, According to Carina Chocano, amongst film critics, the two tropes most commonly associated with Grant are that he reinvented his screen persona in Bridget Jones's Diary and About a Boy and dreads the possibility of becoming a parody of himself.

"Then, in the Bronx, we heard 'fear of becoming homeless.' " Staten Island residents apparently dread chemical spills and gas leaks.

Those who are young -- or old -- and physically and mentally healthy, able, and independent generally look on the possibility of becoming disabled in old age with considerable dread.

The experience of becoming neutropenic was associated with a sense of dread and increased fear about continuing further chemotherapy treatment for nearly one fourth of these patients.

In the days after his son was born, Rob Sandler found the thrill of becoming a new father replaced with dark feelings of dread and hopelessness.