Sentence examples for seemed dread from inspiring English sources

Pie people, it seemed, dread multiplication as much as cupcakes.

N.H.L. fans seemed to dread Fehr's arrival on the hockey scene in 2009, when he was asked to repair a players union torn by internal squabbling after accepting a 24 percent pay cut and a salary cap in the 2004-5 lockout.

Many Japanese, you add, "seem to dread spontaneous conversation with strangers".

Yet most bankers seem to dread damnation in the hereafter as little as censure in the here and now.

This is a country where people usually avoid eye contact or public displays of affection and where many even seem to dread spontaneous conversation with strangers like a strain of the plague.

If they seem to dread your presence, tell you important things at the last minute, are always asking you for things (gifts on holidays, money), don't believe in your abilities or repeatedly say (even jokingly) how they can't wait until you're 18, those are signs.

A sense of excitement and dread seemed to exist since the Cubs lost Sunday, 4-0.

New Orleans was Bush's next stop, and he seemed almost to dread having to leave Mississippi, for all its wreckage.

(By Monday afternoon, the sense of relief was giving way, once more, to a sick sense of dread: Isaac seemed to be heading straight for New Orleans).

Nor had the conflict reduced the warmth of the locals' welcome, whose dreaded reputation seemed wildly misplaced.

And on Wednesday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", she wore pink sequin heart-shaped nipple pasties purchased on Hollywood Boulevard (along with a sparkly rainbow cape, skirt and some plastic raver hair toys and dreads) and seemed to relish Kimmel's discomfort.