Nightmare means: A very unpleasant or frightening dream. Related words include situation or dream. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Nightmare in practice.
Nightmare in a sentence
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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.
Example sentences (20)
But they are often a user experience nightmare, as Smashing Magazine founder Vitaly Friedman clearly demonstrates.
And quickly, before LOLtron regains its internet access and turns your Instagram feed into a dystopian nightmare.
But parents are now plunged into another nightmare of fearing their children’s surgeries will be delayed further.
He has a beast on the outside in WR Justin Jefferson who is a cornerback’s nightmare when he’s in the open field.
I can't sleep and when I do I wake and the reality of this nightmare hits me and Ashley dies over and over again.
Good luck getting 2.7m for that nightmare, particularly when there's a much nicer, albeit smaller, just up the street.
He appeared alongside Englund in an episode of the Nightmare on Elm Street spinoff series Freddy’s Nightmares in 1989.
His other acting credits included Buffy the Vampire SlayerThe Nightmare Before Christmas, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday.
A balky bridge across the river, however, or one out of service, represented at best a headache, or worse, a nightmare.
An eyewitness said the peculiar decision created a “nightmare” as buses, cars and vans were all forced to wait.
Gerry told the Glasgow Times: “I went months without any money at all, it was a complete nightmare and a very dark time.
Despite the nightmare scenario, the content creator took the situation in stride: "Do you think they noticed?" she joked.
For the first two months after they welcomed their daughter into the world, her husband made her life a living nightmare.
But when the dad went out for take-out food that nightmare evening, Lindsay reportedly killed the kids in that short time.
As catchy as the headline "American Nightmare achieves his dream" is, the money is in Rhodes' journey, not his destination.
Isaac is one of the best defensive ends in college football, a nightmare for Big Ten quarterbacks when the ball is snapped.
Divorced and separated couples are facing their worst nightmare: sharing a house with the person they want to get away from.
It is every manager’s nightmare – one of your team is temporarily off the pitch and the opposition score.
Every locksmith's worst nightmare, Alohomora can be used to unlock doors, vaults, and other objects that have been sealed away.
He might not always get it right with his final ball, but he’s a living nightmare for opponents who don’t get a minute’s peace.
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×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word nightmare. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.