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Example sentences for "nightmarish"

Lexicographically close words:
nightjars; nightlong; nightly; nightmare; nightmares; nights; nightshade; nightshirt; nighttime; nigin
  1. Feeling like a man who has waked from a nightmarish sleep to find himself in his tomb, I gazed about.

  2. The nightmarish suddenness of it all held them speechless while they gaped at the car's driver, who gave one backward glance and redoubled his speed.

  3. Two enormous nightmarish heads were actually snapping at the fleeing podoko's tail.

  4. While the two prisoners crouched paralyzed with horror, one of the nightmarish creatures came hopping over and, pressing a head as big as a steam scoop against the bars, stared in with huge, pale green eyes.

  5. The words one knows so well have a nightmarish meaning in this country.

  6. And on all the lips she found a weary desire for peace, the dread of officialdom with its nightmarish parody of administration without law, without security, and without justice.

  7. The entire city was nightmarish in appearance.

  8. He placed his hands upon her, then they embraced until the nightmarish sounds of the ArchBishop's weapons died and the sounds of the children, playing in the streets, filled the air in its place, again.

  9. In the days, weeks and months that passed, Besten and many other cities grew to a majesty, remembered only from the clouded, nightmarish dreams of the late Twentieth Century.

  10. A spasm of fear threatened to overwhelm him again, and nightmarish loneliness.

  11. Bart's wrist, after a few days of nightmarish pain when he tried to pick up anything heavy, had healed.

  12. Milwaukee Avenue put the last touch to my nightmarish state.

  13. The nightmarish quality of the episode persisted in my consciousness like a drug throughout the passage homeward, and it was not until I entered my door and saw a light in my study that reality began to assert itself.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightmarish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.