If so, then there is no reason for your being troubled or dreading any future.
Some of us, by reason not of wishing wealth but of dreading penury, find it hard to shut worldly cares out of our hearts.
James, who in some countries would have had certain reasons fordreading the fire himself, designed to have burned a third heretic, if the humanity of the multitude had not been greater than his own.
A bad report would follow Alex to England she well knew, and it might be that the poor child was dreading its results.
But Alex, dreading blame or disapproval, or even assurances that the scheme was unpractical and foolish, continued to conceal it.
He, to his dismay, remarked that the horsemen had the appearance of Burnett's troopers, and he could not help dreading that the men had mutinied and murdered their commander.
Reginald sprang to the spot, dreading to find that it was that of honest Dick; but the white dress which covered the mangled heap of humanity showed him that it was a native who had been thrown down from that fearful height.
A long pause on the landing; poor Helen dreadingto go into the baby's room, he thought, whither she was drawn so often from her grave.
But their French allies, dreading an amicable state of things between Scotland and England, having lately lost Calais, and being then threatened with a fresh invasion by the English, induced the Scots to break the agreement.
The Normans, however, dreading the formidable league against them, made a second application to Henry through Hervey Fitz-Maurice.
Brown had signed our memorial of course; but, dreading an unfavourable reply, had forwarded through other channels a short but strong remonstrance directly to the Queen.
Bolko glanced at the window, dreading to meet the reproachful look of Auriola; but instead of this, he heard with no less horror the approaching footsteps of his Emma's father.
It was the maidenly force-dreading instinct alone which made her run.
You didn't wait for what was plazing to Barry Lynch when you came down here; nor yet did mother when she went up and fetched you down at five in the morning, dreading he'd murdher you outright.
Aware of the danger he is in of forgetting his duty to his mother, he strengthens himself in filial righteousness, dreading to what word or deed a burst of indignation might drive him.
Uncertain at the moment how to act, and dreading the consequences of rousing suspicion by the perturbation which he could not but betray, he grasps at the sudden idea of affecting madness.
Canst thou speak peace and rest to a soul tost on a sea of troubles, without one friendly star to guide her course, and dreading that the next surge may overwhelm her?
Sir Ringan saw his lady drawing herself up in high indignation; and dreading that his poor kinsman would bring on himself such a rebuke as would banish him the hall for ever, he interposed.
At this the lady uttered a scream; and Douglas, dreading she would fall into hysterics, stretched out his arms to support her.
She sat up and looked at him for some time without speaking, dreading the question she must ask.
Even her hallucinations did not destroy her hopefulness; though dreading them, she regarded them as a recurring malady of the brain, which would presently depart of itself.
They mounted, and on they rode, across the downs, through narrow lanes, past farm houses, dreading that each yelping dog might rouse his master to report which way they were gone.
Rose longed to see and help her mother, dreading the effect of such misery, to be borne in loneliness, by the weak frame, shattered by so many previous sufferings.
We were simply dreading the winter, with no cottage to have good times in.
Paul was growing very anxious for the reappearance of Miriam, or for some news of her or her errand, yet dreading every moment an arrival of another sort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
