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dreading

[ dred-ing ]

verb

  1. the present participle of dread.


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Example Sentences

Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.

Is it possible to really look forward to something, while dreading it too?

I was dreading that moment, because there I was thinking I was wasting all of my money and I would have no more savings.

For Kentucky fans dreading a gut-wrenching defeat, suddenly the impossible was possible!

I became paranoid and avoided her neighborhood, dreading the idea of running into her.

"Yes, yes," cried his lordship impatiently, dreading a repetition of what had occasioned him such intense pain.

She guessed what was coming; she had been a good deal afraid of it all the time; it was her only cause of dreading Coronado.

It might have been fancied that Nature, dreading his bold spirit, adopted the plan of slowly undermining his bodily power.

Michael Strogoff could not help smiling at the epithet bestowed on him, dreading spies as he did above all else.

Quin had been dreading the question, but when it came he did not evade it.

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