nightmares

Example Sentences

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Corvette, a promising and hard-working designer herself who aspires to Christie’s brilliance, is tormented by nightmares of rich people complaining about the generation who “can’t expect everything to be handed to them.”

From Salon • May 22, 2026

But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Another said they became emotionally unstable, had nightmares and spent most of their days in their bedroom.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Troy Terry, who had four shots, said he’ll have nightmares about the misses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

For a few fragile seconds, she remained as detached as the clouds overhead, suspended in an intermediate space between nightmares and dreams, where reality couldn’t reach.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray