Sentence examples for Slightly frightened from inspiring English sources

"Abroad?" she said, surprised and slightly frightened.

The Afghans now looked slightly frightened — less of the Taliban ambush than of their officer, an Afghan captain trained by Green Berets.

No one meeting the political columnist Kirsty Milne ("It's pronounced Keersty") for the first time, as I did on joining the New Statesman in 1994, could fail to come away less than deeply impressed, if perhaps slightly frightened.

The lyrics in "Lookaftering" are wiser, and address her own feelings rather than presenting animistic visions of the outside world, but they are sung the same way: in a quiet, slightly frightened coo.

Honeywell is embarrassed, perhaps even slightly frightened, by an upstart that is managing to get people excited about thermostats.

I took the internship, still slightly frightened and unsure, and gave myself permission to find a new placement if I couldn't handle working in hospice.

It was slightly frightening.

Albeit with something steely and slightly frightening.

To face this vast and luxuriant cistern is slightly frightening.

However, it was Oldham heartthrob Simon's cooking that sent them into slightly frightening raptures.

Like the character Mr. Black portrays, Mr. Green has an indefatigable manic energy that is alternately comical and slightly frightening.