Sentence examples for but frightened from inspiring English sources

He felt safe in his personal protective equipment (PPE) but frightened because the infection was liable to be anywhere.

The earthquake, reported to have a magnitude of 7.0, caused no fatalities, but frightened many, and disrupted services in a broad swath of northern Japan.

"I was filled with passion and energy, but frightened to have to compete with things like this," she recalled, gesturing behind her to a cobalt and cream Picasso-designed textile that belonged to her mother.

LONDON — Agents of cheap American automobiles in London are anything but frightened at the proposal of British manufacturers to organize a great company to drive them out of business here.

Fowler calls it a "wicked word," a pretentious and ignorant borrowing from French; properly, it means not "careful," but "frightened" — indeed, teeth-chatteringly so — coming, as it does, from the Latin metus (fear).

Not because of the subject or the fact that this was my first day in a new school -- but frightened by her face.

The situation is absurd but frightening.

It is small but ominous, sleek but frightening.

I thought he might be dead and that was thrilling somehow, but frightening.

His well-received 1985 film Brazil depicted a comic but frightening futuristic world and starred Jonathan Pryce, Palin, and Robert De Niro.

It doesn't try to soar, but frighten, and it's all the better for it.