What is "nightmarish"

Usage examples of "nightmarish".

The smooth ride of the planar tunnel transformed into a nightmarish bounce and skip, with Regis hurtling head over heels and deflecting off the walls, which twisted suddenly, as if to deny him passage.

Many tried suicide, or called for mercy killings, but the nanotech within them remorselessly kept them alive until the final nightmarish end.

The final meeting with the tinsmith had taken place in the morning before eight of the clock while her cell mates still slept, snoring and blubbering and often shouting in some nightmarish dream, unaware of her newfound protection.

Their stomachs growled like a nightmarish chorus of spirits gargling ectoplasm in the moonlight.

His company had been based in Huddersfield at that time, so he had been fortunate to have missed the nightmarish invasion of London and the consequent evacuation.

Nothingness, which contracted a monstrous and nightmarish debt by inflating, without rhyme or reason, the metagalactic bubble!

According to Hans Gustafsson and Stig Rydberg, nightmarish creatures from a flying saucer attacked them and tried to kidnap them on the morning of December 20, 1958.

He had a sudden nightmarish vision of a Sunnite prayer meeting in the Sistine Chapel.

And while Bebe could fish alone on his boat, the tournament directors could assign me a nightmarish trio of anglers like Sam Brown, John Mitchell and Baby Huey.

She tried to imagine the consequences of releasing poison gas into the Chunnel once it was in full operation, then shuddered as the nightmarish scenario played out in her mind.

She commenced to tremble again, and, falling back into her nightmarish horror, she no longer wasted fond expletives on her domovoi as on a dear little angel who had just rendered a service ten times more precious to her than life.

In the nightmarish images he had been running through the wild, thick jungles of the Western Islands, searching desperately for Amaryllis.

The bluish, nightmarish crew was assembled behind that band, surveying the world with great multifaceted eyes.

Behind the transparent band its bluish, nightmarish crew were assembled and looking with great, multifaceted eyes at the upper surface of the clouds.

Then Tyrants arose among the Jaghut, who found pleasure in enslaving them, in forcing upon them a nightmarish existencethat successive generations were born into and so knew of no other life, knew nothing of freedom itself.