Sentence examples for At frightful from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, using computers and the Internet effectively is a truly daunting management challenge -- a lesson that corporate America relearns daily at frightful cost.

Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, read by Simon Callow (Penguin £8.99) Bertie Wooster finds himself as house guest at frightful Totleigh Towers, where lurks Madeline, a 'cross between a ticking bomb and a poltergeist', planning to enmesh him when her engagement to Gussie Fink-Nottle fizzles out.

"But that came at a frightful human, financial and political cost," he noted.

What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!

Rather than let the public guess as to what these words mean, ask Congress to write a statute that actually aims at those frightful things that it was trying to prohibit.

As early as 1921, he had written to his father, "I am going to be at a frightful disadvantage for some years, sheepish and put-upon, but when I am discovered things will be vulgarly resplendent; I vend a cake Americans will hug".

When the driving test man announced, "Hello Miss Moore, I'm Mr Much", I cackled hysterically for about 10 minutes at this frightful joke about my name, until I realise that Mr Much was in fact this little man's real moniker.

Four or five years later, even PG Wodehouse was laughing fascism to greater scorn ("Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!"), not because he was more alert to its perils, but because he was more genuinely apolitical.

They also plunge 225 feet at a frightful 55 degrees.

As Halloween looms, a look back at some frightful moments in music.

Such a circumstance would seem to be very dangerous, or at least frightful; however as I watched myself journey those dark waters, for some reason, I knew I'd be okay.