What is "dreading"

Usage examples of "dreading".

I knocked, dreading encountering her as much as I dreaded finding that Hap and Svanja were not there.

I heaved a sigh and went inside and up the stairs, both dreading and anticipating an encounter with Lord Golden.

I studied them a long time, afraid and dreading, and yet knowing they offered me my only hope.

Incidentally, that thing you are dreading — it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October.

She was both dreading and dying to hear his version of that story she’d first heard from Alana in makeup.

She pointed at it, both hoping and dreading that it meant what she thought it did.

Between listening for the phone and dreading the sulky poet’s visit, she was wound tighter than a roll of film.

She spent that day and the following five days sitting at the bow of the Wind Warrior, staring into the horizon, seeing nothing, saying nothing, dreading the coming night when she would wake and stare out the porthole, looking for a dawn that never came.

He's probably just as vulnerable, and he's also probably got a mother somewhere dreading meeting Katie as much as I'm dreading meeting him.

No one has mentioned itto me, at least, though for all I know it has been the central topic of conversation at Delacourt ever since I left my father's roofbut I am well aware that everyone is on tenterhooks, dreading the day when I announce my betrothal to a brewer's daughter, or a shepherdess, or some such thing.

There was a terrible moment while she waited, dreading his inevitable exclamation of sympathy or curiosity.

She nodded and encouraged him, dreading the inevitable questions about herself.

The previous night, still shaken by the news of his dad's death and dreading the trip to Asherville, he had dozed only fitfully.