Sentence examples for a frightful example of from inspiring English sources

Indeed, to all the great Western trading powers of the day — much of whose wealth was built on the labor of enslaved Africans — Haiti stood as a frightful example of freedom carried too far.

It came on suddenly, with the second blow — a frightful kind of joy.

A single ski-jumping accident can become a frightful bit of Olympic folklore.

And Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, had acquired a face full of gray scruff that stood as a frightful symbol of the 1998 lockout.

The BoardofDeputies is a frightful bag of disputatious Jews and the editor of the JewishChron is a prat.

This date has of course become largely associated with the humble haggis: to some the embodiment of culinary excellence, to others, a frightful concoction of offal and oats.

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

That was all the Knicks could have asked for Wednesday night, after a frightful month of diagnostic tests and doctor visits that ravaged the roster.

She described a frightful tableau of shattered glass, streaks of blood and a trail of torn wreckage, as if the "guts" of the car had "splashed" out.

"There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animal," he said.

And for all those eyeballs on-line, marketing consumes a frightful chunk of revenues.