NIGHTMARE in a Sentence

nightmare

 n.  dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress

 n.  event or experience that is intensely distressing

1  Time and events were telescoped, jumbled together like a nightmare that had no reality or reason.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII

2  I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII

3  Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtook Charles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII

4  New Hope Church was a nightmare of another life and so was Big Shanty, where they turned and fought the Yankees like demons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  Her mind felt numb and so did her legs, numb as in a nightmare when she tried to run and could not move them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI

6  But the idea of returning to that room where she had spent so many nightmare hours was repulsive to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

7  Scarlett felt it tremble, tremble as if he had been awakened from a nightmare into a half-sense of reality.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  It was during these days that Scarlett dreamed and dreamed again the nightmare which was to haunt her for years.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

9  "Daytime is enough like a nightmare without my dreaming things," she thought desperately and began hoarding her daily ration to eat it just before she went to sleep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

10  Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

11  What happened next was like a nightmare to Scarlett, and it all happened so quickly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV

12  Perhaps it was this combination that brought back her old nightmare that evening, for she awoke, cold with sweat, sobbing brokenly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

13  She thought it the most beautiful and most elegantly furnished house she had ever seen, but Rhett said it was a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

14  She was sick in body and weary in mind and she was standing like a lost child in a nightmare country in which there was no familiar landmark to guide her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII

15  The old nightmare feeling was sweeping her, stronger than ever, and her heart began to race.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII

1  It was hard to describe the nightmare she had lived through.

2  Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can't withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.

3  She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.

4  His main nightmare is voluntarily enlisting in the Army again and being sent back to Iraq.

5  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.

6  These days nightmares assail him regularly.

7  I shouldn't have watched that movie - it'll give me nightmares.