Sentence examples for like dread from inspiring English sources

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It's like dread and wonder and marvel and fear all mixed up together; your mouth goes dry and it's hard to breathe, but still you don't want the feeling to end.

But his amusement gradually turned into something like dread.

For all her enthusiasm, there's now something like dread in her voice – but resolution, too.

Meanwhile, outside, a sudden summer storm battered the city, the rain falling like dread.

The actors who have strutted most boldly on it are inchoate things like dread, eeriness, triumph, loneliness, whiteness, despair, excitement, danger, awe, holiness and exaltation.

The instinctual brain, which makes rapid, if crude, all-or-nothing assessments about danger, is the seat of intuition and of gut feelings like dread and aggression.

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But if you have very straight hair or don't like dreads, just leave your hair alone.

Tennant walks down along the Thames, Irons rows across it, Hawke prowls the streets of New York, whose graffiti-covered walls are called upon to convey a little "Macbeth -like dread.

Six feet tall, he shaves slits in his eyebrows and styles his hair in tendril-like dreads.

The most popular, Children of Hoarders,   maintains an online forum where members trade strategies for helping parents, discuss issues like "doorbell dread" (more on that later) and share stories.

Black swallowwort and its cousin, pale swallowwort, names that seem right out of Harry Potter, sound like dreaded potions to choke a princess.

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