Sentence examples for Very frightful from inspiring English sources

"I would have been very frightful to think of what condition he would have been in had he not been sedated at the time".

But he called the more recent decline "really frightful".

"A high-ranking lieutenant came in, really frightful.

It really is a frightful business.

Throughout the New Testament, the only kind of people with whom Jesus consistently takes frightful exception are the very "teachers of the law and Pharisees" we see him dressing down in the passages above.

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

Rarely have football teams proved greater chameleons than this "when we're good we're very good but when we're bad we're frightful" Wearside ensemble.

Despite the sniping from both sides, Chamberlain was very concerned about the expense of rearmament, "What a frightful bill we do owe to Master Hitler, damn him!

His footnote to the paragraph is even more interesting: "The Hindoos reckon mercury one of their most powerful medicines, but are very apt, not always intentionally, to induce by its use most frightful salivations".

This was a not very oblique reference to the very real apprehension that this year something truly frightful might happen in Hollister.

I'll probably make a frightful mess of it,' he sighs, 'but then there's a very relaxed atmosphere there.