We don't have to dread work, it's a choice.
We tend to "downsize" each time we move, and I always dread the process.
I dread to think what the carbon footprint must be like of moving that coal but we have no choice.
Enjoy yourself in the moment, without thinking of future things you dread, and the activity can be very pleasant and even fun.
Methought - o Hester, what a thought is that, and how terrible to dread it! - that my own features were partly repeated in her face, and so strikingly that the world might see them!
You may dread them.
We all dread the oral qualification exam.
He felt an indescribable sensation somewhat akin to dread — that dread of the daylight which even in the desert makes us fear we are watched and observed.
If you dread what lies ahead, you may be more likely to find excuses to veer off course.
His wife, who will then also be a mother, might watch in silent dread but Massa insists he shall push himself to the limit again.
There shall no man be able to stand before you： for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon， as he hath said unto you.
And he doesn't dread Monday mornings.
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?
At3:15 am I awoke suddenly to an unexplainable and utterly paralyzing feeling of horror and dread that steals the warmth of my blood even now.
But this dread is mistaken.
Otherwise, my dread of criticism can paralyze me.
But Westminster folk memories of the disruptive fuel-price protests in 2000 are vivid-and the government is watching with dread as fuel prices head skyward again.
Choose your dinner with dread.
The students' education is still filled with the penal servitude of homework and the dread of tests.
There are so many things we are afraid of - disease, accidents, old age, natural disasters - that we are almost used to having this undercurrent of dread in our lives.
During my teens the trips to a hostile house became a dread on the horizon for weeks beforehand.
The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.
I dread sleeping: my dreams appal me.
And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread."
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
In the towns surrounding Civitavecchia, the impending arrival of a huge coal plant, with its three silvery domes, is being greeted with a hefty dose of dread.
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