Sentence examples for desperately frightened from inspiring English sources

The European Union is divided between the desperately frightened and the myopically complacent.

And schools are desperately frightened – if their reputation goes down, parents will choose to go elsewhere".

'Now', say the headteachers, 'all the other pupils are desperately frightened' and the education of hundreds of children has been jeopardised for the sake of a tiny minority.

A desperately frightened Eritrean refugee was on a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea, calling the only person he knew who might care: Sweden-based Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos.

It is desperately frightening.

Gone, too, are the months when carriers desperately wooed frightened travelers by catering to their needs and when well-intentioned federal officials optimistically laid out new safety plans.

I know now they were frightened and desperately wanted me to stop, but at the time it felt like they were angry with me and it just widened the chasm between us.

"Seventy-two Australians are unaccounted for and that means in Queensland and around the nation, there are people who are frightened, people who are desperately waiting for news of loved ones," she said.

Opening that box we so desperately wanted to keep shut -- frightened of what we might find.

That he wanted desperately to learn to swim, but had been too frightened, in two decades in California, to try?

It's an excellent conclusion – haunting, frightening, and desperately sad.