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Example sentences for "much dreaded"

  • This snake is much dreaded; for, when surprised or attacked, it rises up as if ready to spring upon you.

  • It is much dreaded on account of its great strength and ferocity.

  • The swift-footed antelope has no foe to be so much dreaded as the lion.

  • The latter put his hand under his robe, and with a smile took out the so much dreaded work, and then, as if satisfied with this proof of independence, he gave it up to the cardinal.

  • Standish, seeing the failure of his attack in the city, sighed and groaned and prayed, and repeated mass against the so much dreaded book.

  • A persevering search had discovered that it was these men to whom England was indebted for the so much dreaded book; their warehouses were surrounded and their persons arrested.

  • She knew it would, at least, create a great deal of perplexity among them, and delay, if not totally prevent, the completion of what she so much dreaded.

  • He saw a very brilliant circle; but not she, whom he so much dreaded to find, shine among them.

  • But, when awakened from this lethargy of silent grief, she felt all the horrors of a fate she had so much dreaded.

  • In Germany, though the more horrible forms of the superstition are rare, the 'Nachzehrer' is much dreaded.

  • In Egyptian symbolism those long ears were as much dreaded as devils' horns.

  • Thunder in a clear sky is much dreaded, an idea which often appears in classical literature.

  • In Kumaun, where hail is much dreaded, there are many devices of the same kind.

  • Saptasri Devi, a much dreaded spirit in the Konkan, lives in a cave; such is also the case with the eight-armed Devi at Asthbhuja, in the Mirzapur District.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    much agitated; much alone; much astonished; much attention; much branched; much comfort; much cultivated; much difficulty; much employed; much fatigued; much injury; much noise; much occupied; much opposed; much reason; much sorrow; much sought; much success; much superior; much taken; much uneasiness; much wealth; much wind; must endeavor; neutral powers; vain tried