How to Use nightmare in a Sentence

nightmare

noun

• The party was a complete nightmare.
• Mommy, I had a really scary nightmare.
• The 25-year-old truck — and the nightmare — picked up speed.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 18 July 2025
• The plot of Love Hard, frankly, sounds like a nightmare.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2021
• Then one day, the nightmare of Auschwitz came to an end.
  — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
• Sure, that project went out on time, but the process was a nightmare.
  — Rachel Lobdell, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
• The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• But the, the two guys who have caused this nightmare are coming.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• The Shermans’ children say the years since the killings have been a nightmare.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• And the look of the film, a kind of Day-Glo nightmare, is insanely cool.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024
• Just out of the gate, golden king crabs are a nightmare.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• In turn, such bad buzz became a PR nightmare for the movie.
  — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
• All of these things make the end of the year a nightmare for so many companies.
  — David Villa, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Words can’t describe the painful nightmare of this last year.
  — Notan Eva Costa, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025
• Shot-making from any place else on the floor has been a nightmare.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021
• The 2016 leaks were not just a PR nightmare for the Clinton campaign.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• That debate, of course, was a nightmare for Biden – who pulled out of the race at the end of July.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
• The movie plays off a perfect nightmare for many who have sailed, said Ruz.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• Plus, out-of-square corners and bulging, wavy walls can be a nightmare for a novice.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• The whole chase scene at the end, with all the water effects, would have been a nightmare 20 years ago.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
• With a large group of seniors and a new coach in 2023, Tigard could be a nightmare to match up against.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• The first few minutes of a telephone call are a nightmare.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• The boundaries between the two countries were a nightmare from the get-go.
  — David Faris, The Week, 15 Sep. 2022
• This is why joint accounts are a nightmare in the event of a split or divorce.
  — Susan Devaney, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2022
• The hours that followed were something out of a nightmare.
  — Sasha Hupka, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
• The visceral energy of the anger of this guy in a clown suit is the stuff of nightmares.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
• That whine would be a constant throughout the day, and still haunts my nightmares.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Well, after a few years, there was a nightmare one night.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
• This is the most horrific nightmare imaginable for the parents who dropped their children off at the first week back to school.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025
• Alongside the grief and pain, his return provides some comfort to the family after 692 days of waiting in the nightmare of uncertainty.
  — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2025