Sentence examples for a real fright from inspiring English sources

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"My first thoughts when I take to the track will be for Felipe, because I got a real fright when I saw his accident," he said.

Every now and then the deer give me a real fright, startling me as they leap up from the reed-filled path, before dashing away on spring-loaded legs.

Devine also played a starring role in giving Australia a real fright in that 2010 final in Barbados, when New Zealand fell an agonising three runs short and therefore suffered their second consecutive final defeat.

Yeovil had matched them for 64 minutes leading the public address to announce the man-of-the-match award as "the entire team" and Gary Johnson, the manager, to talk about having given their opponents a "real fright".

Only a week earlier, Wilson Kipsang, until then an unheralded name in marathon running, gave Patrick Makau's six-week old world record a real fright by running 2 03 42 in the Frankfurt marathon.

Gold Coast wing who was known as David Moore when the Kumuls gave England a real fright in Townsville five years ago and has scored some spectacular NRL tries.

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Its cheesy pop-culture self-consciousness -- most evident in the moderately clever premise of assembling an all-star team of 19th-century literary monsters -- has no room for real fright, or for the pathos and longing that lurk beneath the surface dread in the best horror movies.

"Among Jews in Europe today there's real fright, there's real anxiety," says Mayer, "But I wouldn't put the opinions and the acts at the same level.

There is nothing new or special here and if you're looking for real frights it's better to get them from an R-rated scare fest on Netflix than this comparatively tame and superficial series.

Then I die, and the real frights begin.

She's more a figurehead than a real creature in movies like "Stage Fright," "Rancho Notorious" and "Witness for the Prosecution".

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