How to Use worst nightmare in a Sentence

worst nightmare

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  • Jeffrey Kernodle: The worst day of your life, just your worst nightmare.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The next morning, Hanke woke up to his worst nightmare.
    — Colleen Deguzman, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The past few days have been a fan's delight and a coach's worst nightmare to make sure her players didn't get caught up in the achievement.
    — Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The past few days have been a fan's delight — and a coach's worst nightmare to make sure her players didn't get caught up in the achievement.
    — Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024
  • But make no mistake: These creatures are a prairie dog’s worst nightmare.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But in 2007, that dream opportunity gave him what — at the time — was his worst nightmare.
    — Sofia Viera, refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • For Cole, that Sunday night performance is their worst nightmare come to life.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Sadly, some of the complaints filed about Rover are every pet owner’s worst nightmare.
    — Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Penalty kicks are either a goalie’s worst nightmare or fondest dream.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Old-time lawn sprinkler heads spew water everywhere, and lawn is a drought’s worst nightmare.
    — Dan Vierria, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the Jets’ worst nightmare happened and Wilson once again became the team’s starting quarterback.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Closure is overrated when the result is your worst nightmare.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
  • This one starts with a defensive play by Warroad senior Rylee Bartz and ends with any goalie’s worst nightmare — Bartz bearing down with the puck and nothing but open ice in front of her.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Family calls for action Duran said Thursday that these past 170 days have been her worst nightmare.
    — Jordan Laird, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Caught in the breaking monster, Rodrigo found himself at the top of a virtual waterfall, about to be launched backwards over the falls—a surfer's worst nightmare.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Alcohol are often the source of scalp irritation and hair dryness, i.e. a curly girl’s worst nightmare.
    — Lauren Tappan, ELLE, 3 June 2023
  • Peter Eliasberg is the L.A. County sheriff’s worst nightmare.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • The thought of your child being taken from you is every parent's worst nightmare, which makes the lack of intervention in this twisted story all the more upsetting.
    — Melissa Sherrard, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The Journal News to Indiana to follow a parent's worst nightmare: their college student vanishing, 800 miles from home.
    — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
  • Haley getting the nomination would be Biden’s worst nightmare.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But what happens when (spoiler alert) her worst nightmare becomes a reality?
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 22 July 2023
  • On Monday afternoon, hundreds of people north of Boston were confronted with their worst nightmare.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Misery King’s 1987 novel about an obsessed fan who captures her favorite author is every writer’s worst nightmare.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Gillian Flynn’s tale of marital tedium — and then revenge — is every couple’s worst nightmare.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
  • No matter how minor the charge, Rosenstein acknowledged that any interaction with the criminal system is a parent's worst nightmare.
    — Eshaan Sarup, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Her disappearance set off one of the largest searches in Arizona history and became a national news story, a symbol of every parent's worst nightmare.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of this house, for example, the wood paneling, tiled floors, and oddly textured drop ceilings could be interpreted as apparitions from a decorator’s worst nightmare.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • On Sunday morning, Sturgeon’s worst nightmare deepened.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • This is every wildlife conservationist’s worst nightmare.
    — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
  • However, when Adelaide began regressing and our worst nightmare—that her condition was neurodegenerative—was confirmed, my original conception of inchstones became cold comfort.
    — Kelly Cervantes, Fortune Well, 1 Dec. 2023

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