Sentence examples for frightening odor from inspiring English sources

IN one of Alfred Kazin's earliest books, the slightly schmaltzy and wholly wonderful memoir from 1951, "A Walker in the City," he sighs over the kitchen table of his childhood and over his poor mother, slaving away at the ironing board, which gave off a frightening odor -- "as if each piece of cloth and paper crushed with light under the naked bulb might suddenly go up in flames".

Sound frightening?

Sometimes, frightening.

Indeed frightening.

Why frightening?

Even "frightening".

That's frightening".

It is even frightening.

Certainly frightening numbers.

The potential is frightening.

The prospect is frightening.