Sentence examples for a frightful time from inspiring English sources

Long-time Liverpool secretary Peter Robinson described having a "frightful time" trying to persuade Paisley to take over the managerial reins following the departure of predecessor Bill Shankly, who had claimed three league titles, two FA Cups and two Uefa Cups over 15 seasons after taking over in 1959.

She also said it was a "frightful time" with Trump's victory.

This is our America in a most frightful time.

The Radio Times had printed an old diary, dating from the frightful time Nigel fell off the roof.

Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull from two years ago now looks like the perfect artefact to draw the line between the excess of the recent past and the frightful times coming our way.

His exquisite images of bunny guts, darting snakes, transparent dresses, flapping bird shadows, squirming infants, human skulls, dead swans, rotting mushrooms and tunnels of light suggest that he spends a frightful amount of time thinking about birth and death, fecundity and rot.

What a frightful and grim time it was during this period in Innsbruck and Hall, one can imagine from v. Rost's description.

"I'm a frightful snob and perhaps it's time for me to take myself less seriously," he said about taking part in the ITV show.

The fifth was a frightful experience, as the Cardinals scored three times and appeared on the verge of turning a rout into a nail-biter.

In a letter to the novelist Rosamond Lehmann written in 1945, Green reported a "frightful surge of power and ideas," and called "these times . . . an absolute gift to the novelist".

They got off to a shaky start, and Cutler took a frightful pounding, largely because a leaky offensive line did not allow him time to find the receivers supposedly set free by Martz's intricate scheming.