nightmarish

Example Sentences

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Though those deaths have been nightmarish, the actor told Smith that he has found “understanding” in those losses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Two of Martel’s favorite movies set in L.A. are David Lynch’s nightmarish “Mulholland Drive” and Robert Aldrich’s psychodrama “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Harvey Pratt was a young police officer in Midwest City, Okla., during a string of nightmarish murders in the early 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan