dreading

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• I spent the last golden days of fall mentally preparing myself to spend winter alone, bundled up in blankets and existential dread.

• I started to dread every time I put the oximeter around my finger, fearing this would be the day that the measurement dropped below 95, the bottom end of “normal,” and Carrie would have to take me to the emergency room.

• He tried not to acknowledge Wednesday as the two-year anniversary of his injury and kept noticing, with dread, the rack of throwback jerseys that Washington would wear Sunday that sat all week in the team’s training room.

• There are always holiday naysayers who dread Thanksgiving, loathe “It’s a Wonderful Life” and shout, “Bah, humbug!”

• The new Supreme Court term will open on Monday under a cloud of uncertainty — and dread, if you’re a liberal.

• 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 Coronado.