Sentence examples for dreading from inspiring English sources
The word 'dreading' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an anxious or fearful feeling associated with something you are expecting to happen. For example, "I'm dreading the day of the big exam."
verb
Present participle of dread
9.45am: Terry's farewell... "This is it then this is the day I have been dreading, the morning when you and I come to the parting of the ways, the last Wake Up To Wogan.
I am absolutely dreading it and trying not to think about it.
The "undulating" 85km bike course definitely became "hilly" on the second lap, but it was the half marathon at the end I had been dreading.
"We were dreading having to tell her we've only got enough money to pay you for another month," said Montse.
My housemate is younger than me and probably dreading the thought of me lording over the couch and TV remote.
In between now and this reborn Fianna Fáil, the party's activists are dreading having to face angry voters on the doorsteps.
Or finally had that conversation you'd been dreading and can directly connect how down you've been feeling to the weight of it hanging over you?
Rather than dreading the new era of coalition parliaments as Matthew d'Ancona writes (You think coalition government was bad? What's coming is uglier, 20 April), this change is to be welcomed.
IT WAS the one call that AT&T, America's second-largest mobile-phone operator, had been dreading.
FOR some years the big drugmakers have been dreading an approaching "patent cliff"—a slump in sales as the patents on their most popular pills expire or are struck down by legal challenges, with few new potential blockbusters to take their place.
Meanwhile, plenty of servicemen and women are dreading the "witch-hunt" potential of the telephone hot lines installed by the services to report sexual misconduct (one telephone victim was Mr Longhouser).The cynical question is not whether the armed forces' effort will be effective but whether it will be appreciated.
