Sentence examples for lingering dread from inspiring English sources
"lingering dread" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English
It refers to a feeling of fear or anxiety that persists over time. Example: The villagers all felt a lingering dread as they recalled the legend of the mysterious creature that roamed the forest at night.
Instead Babchenko presents us with a relentless account of fear, boredom, confusion, filth, cold, disease, hunger, thirst and lingering dread - a world that feels far removed from the gold-embossed bestselling accounts of square-jawed British or American ex-soldiers.
Gingerly not because I'm sure of what's to come, but because of the lingering dread, manifest in the sound.
While it takes more time and work, creating a scary environment, such as a haunted house, will build a lingering dread in people's hearts and minds while they expect the worst to happen at any moment.
De Vries apparently always had a lingering sense of dread.
** De Vries apparently always had a lingering sense of dread.
Kim Newman, the doyen of horror film criticism, described it this month as "one of the strongest, most effective horror films of recent years" which "imparts a lingering sense of dread that will stay with you for days".
"[Benzodiazepines] work really well until they turn on you and then it's just utter living hell," she continued, describing a lingering experience of dread and "crushing fatigue".
So awful is the prospect of a repeat, so raw are the emotions, so lingering is the dread that it distorts our thinking and warps assessments of what actual threats are out there.
But in it you also have the possibility for a song as elegiac as Homer Henderson's "Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine," as well as Erykah Badu's controversial and misunderstood video for "Window Seat," which this telescoped distance allows, yet which lingering guilt and dread would deny.
In a parody of the types of purple-prose weed strain descriptors you might find on sites like Leafly, the 49-year-old fabricated pot names like "Daddy Issues," which "leaves [smokers with] a deep feeling of regret and existential dread with a lingering premonition that things will just get worse".
As in his other books, there is much lingering in derelict places, long trance-like walks are always being taken, and characters are constantly afflicted by headaches and feelings of dread.
