Sentence examples for state of dread from inspiring English sources

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH is, she says, in an advanced state of dread.

Now there's a sense of shock, everyone's mystified and almost in a state of dread".

None of which stops him from waking up in a state of dread at the thought of dying.

Like some chequerboard version of Conrad's Kurtz, the experience seemed to leave him in a state of dread.

Now one can achieve a state of dread in a few short hours, surrounded by the comforts of home.

They are holdouts, unplugged and awaiting, in a state of dread, what Archy calls "the great wave of late-modern capitalism".

By age 39, I lived in a state of constant dread.

In a state of nervous dread, she looked through the wallet, a leather billfold of good quality but badly worn.

Rushdie in his Manhattan retreat is no longer a Third World writer but a bard of the grim one world we all, in a state of some dread, inhabit.

No wonder his characters live in a state of existential dread, desperate to find a door through which they can escape.

It seems that this fiercest of literary lionesses lived a good deal of her life in a state of private dread.