Definition: 1. A situation resembling a terrifying dream. 2. A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream.
Use 'nightmare' in a sentence:
1. She might have forgotten her completely had it not been for recurrent nightmares.
2. The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick.
3. People involved in it think it's a nightmare, but I'm sure it will work itself out.
4. You sitting there may be merely my dream, and I may be your nightmare.
5. It's a nightmare for me.
6. The department has become a bureaucratic nightmare.
7. If it goes ahead, it will be the nightmare scenario.
8. It is a subject that's near and dear to my heart. Being an English teacher, it is my worst nightmare.
9. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself; there's nothing to be afraid of.
10. Patients rehearse the new dream, which could be a less haunting version of the nightmare or a completely different dream.
11. I often have the most terrible nightmares.
12. This is a dizzy nightmare.
13. In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare.
14. The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.
15. If you absolutely have to touch the code, expect it to be a nightmare.
16. I had a nightmare last night.
17. I had a nightmare last night, and lost sleep.
18. My attempt to get a new passport turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare.
19. It may be morning, but Splat is facing his worst nightmare: the first day of school.
20. When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.
21. He is troubled by [with] nightmare.
22. It's been like living through a nightmare.
23. He woke up from a horrible nightmare.
24. They have nightmares, they startle easily.
25. He still has nightmares about the accident.
26. If making money is your daydream and losing money your nightmare, if poverty is your worst fear and making money your most fervent prayer, you have missed the opportunity for education.
27. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
28. All the victims still suffered nightmares.
29. Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare.
30. People who repress their emotions risk having nightmares.
31. I woke cold and shaking from the nightmare.
32. He has nightmares about the tanks imploding.
33. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
34. It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare.
35. He thought he had a nightmare.
36. Nightmares kept me awake all night.
37. She described the distribution of food and medical supplies as a logistical nightmare.
38. His abrasive wit and caustic comments were an interviewer's nightmare.
39. Jane did not eat cheese because it gives her nightmares.
40. Nobody knows what's going on ─ it's a nightmare!
41. "It's the ultimate nightmare," a retail executive from a well-known chain admitted to TIME.
42. The years in prison were a nightmare.
43. The conflict degenerating into civil war is everybody's nightmare scenario.
44. The EU thought it could resolve Europe's worst nightmare and boost its own credibility as a strong actor on the international stage.
45. Our dream holiday turned into a nightmare.
46. Maureen put the nightmare behind her.
47. Actually I've heard a lot about you in that project, the client sounded like a real nightmare.
48. They began to recover slowly from their nightmare of pain and suffering.
