Get to know Nightmare better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like incubus or situation.
Nightmare meaning
- A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
- Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
- A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
Using Nightmare
- The main meaning on this page is: A very unpleasant or frightening dream. | Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. | A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
- Useful related words include: incubus, situation, dream, dreaming.
- In the example corpus, nightmare often appears in combinations such as: the nightmare, nightmare for, nightmare of.
Context around Nightmare
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nightmare
- In this selection, "nightmare" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ultimate, level, horrible, sigils, dungeon and 1800 stand out and add context to how "nightmare" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a claustrophobic nightmare is set and a dystopian nightmare. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nightmare" sits close to words such as grief, precision and streams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nightmare
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A long legal nightmare. (4 words)
Nightmare (1800) after Henry Fuseli 's The Nightmare (1781). (9 words)
A claustrophobic nightmare, is set at a remote research base in Antarctica. (12 words)
Alan said: “This is a nightmare situation, when Holly went to the States, we expected her to be home in two weeks rested and recuperated, ready to continue the fight against this awful disease. (34 words)
Finally, in 1988, Dream escapes and puts Alex into a nightmare of "eternal waking," in which he is forever dreaming he is waking up, and each waking degenerates into another horrible nightmare. (32 words)
An absolutely terrifying mystery, hails from relatively new creator ) as a leader in a nightmare of a town in Middle America that traps unsuspecting travelers attempting to pass through. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
As she moved closer, the nightmare, the ultimate nightmare for a parent, came into focus.
The tier for Nightmare Sigils rewarded from Whisper Caches will now always be within 5 Levels of the highest-level Nightmare Dungeon the player has completed.
While bouncing from nightmare to nightmare in one issue can make the comic feel like it lacks focus, thematically it works well.
Finally, in 1988, Dream escapes and puts Alex into a nightmare of "eternal waking," in which he is forever dreaming he is waking up, and each waking degenerates into another horrible nightmare.
In 1908, A Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptor's Nightmare, a film by Billy Bitzer.
Nightmare (1800) after Henry Fuseli 's The Nightmare (1781).
A balky bridge across the river, however, or one out of service, represented at best a headache, or worse, a nightmare.
A claustrophobic nightmare, is set at a remote research base in Antarctica.
After a nightmare start, the Bucks settled and they should have been level by the 10th minute.
A homeowner was left rattled after a nightmare neighbour ripped down their fence without permission.
Aid workers on the ground have expressed concerns about the help being provided to Syria after the two devastating earthquakes - describing the current situation as a "nightmare scenario".
Alan said: “This is a nightmare situation, when Holly went to the States, we expected her to be home in two weeks rested and recuperated, ready to continue the fight against this awful disease.
A long legal nightmare.
A mother has revealed her horror after a 'normal day' turned into a nightmare when her son scalded himself with a boiling hot cup of takeaway noodles.
An absolutely terrifying mystery, hails from relatively new creator ) as a leader in a nightmare of a town in Middle America that traps unsuspecting travelers attempting to pass through.
And it’s a bit of a nightmare to decarbonize because there are so many moving parts.
And quickly, before LOLtron regains its internet access and turns your Instagram feed into a dystopian nightmare.
And the entire infrastructure contains what experts have described as single points of failure -- where one cyberattack at a port cause a logistical nightmare across the supply chain.
And we have the Nightmare Before Christmas 3700 piece set to entertain.
An eyewitness said the peculiar decision created a “nightmare” as buses, cars and vans were all forced to wait.
Common combinations with nightmare
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the nightmare 26×
- nightmare for 18×
- nightmare of 12×
- nightmare before 10×
- into nightmare 9×
- of nightmare 8×
- nightmare on 8×
- be nightmare 7×
- nightmare to 6×
- nightmare in 6×