nightmare
Example Sentences
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“That’s the nightmare scenario — that those things just happen more frequently and become more exacerbated when the agency is not firing on all cylinders,” Inge said.
From MarketWatch
If only, she thought, she could just fly, up and out of this nightmare.
From Literature
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My sister’s rattled, like a kid after a nightmare.
From Literature
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Since then, he’s suffered from bouts of uncontrolled sobbing and relentless nightmares.
The security guard, who lives in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, describes her time there in the early 1980s as a "nightmare".
From BBC
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