Stethoscopes remain a cold reminder, the dreaded moment of any medical exam.

Billy is snapped back to the "present" by Roland Weary, for whom the dreaded moment has come.

The dreaded moment was arriving when we were about to seek an opening into the interior of the earth by means of gunpowder.

Once I realised no-one was hurt then came the dreaded moment.

And now that the dreaded moment of her lost virginity was over, all the longing, all the aching came flooding back.

But each time he awoke just in time to avoid experiencing the dreaded moment.

The dreaded moment of the outbreak of hostilities had arrived.

"I thought: it is finally here, the dreaded moment," said Ms. Rivera, 31, a secretary.

Arriving at and leaving docks in the Lyric became our most dreaded moments.