Sentence examples for frightened growing from inspiring English sources

After he mentions that in 1960 he witnessed an assassination attempt on Apartheid's mastermind, Hendrik Verwoerd, I ask if he was ever frightened growing up.

Chris Williamson, chief economist at financial data provide Markit, said Carney's speech had already frightened growing numbers of consumers into believing they faced the prospect of higher inflation and an increase in mortgage costs by the spring of next year at the latest.

Still, there's a difference between a celebrated transgender adult and a transgender child – it must have been frightening growing up.

I'm getting increasingly frightened of growing older.

(I tended to make a grand, nearly cinematic deal of flicking the bubbles away, as though to say, "Now, Mom, aren't you glad I was a junkie?") My mother was not the most serene person, but when things got uncomfortable, or frightening, she grew steadier.

President Harry Truman charged that such "scaremongers" had "created such a wave of fear and uncertainty that... people are growing frightened -- and frightened people don't protest".

I was growing frightened that I might not be able to cope.

Unionists are frightened by the growing nationalist share of the vote and the extent of support for Sinn Fein, the IRA's political voice.

He confessed, too, that he was "frightened" at the growing power of global corporations, some of which he said "are more powerful than mid-sized countries".

Public officials whisked offstage by security agents frightened of the growing mob.

Afterward, she grew frightened.