Sentence examples for frighteningly common from inspiring English sources

Executions are frighteningly common.

It is indeed frighteningly common.

Rape by government militiamen is frighteningly common.

Workplace discrimination was endemic and police brutality frighteningly common.

Shootings are still frighteningly common, admits the local police captain, but milder worries are creeping in.

The attacks have become so frighteningly common that they account for a quarter of British fatalities so far this year.

What these cases and many like them have in common — frighteningly so — is that they enshrine as law the shifting edicts of unelected government officials in charge of administering the ever-broadening areas where the government claims the right to regulate us.

Viruses are the cause of a variety of diseases ranging from the mildly annoying common cold to the frighteningly lethal ebola.

These frighteningly powerful freak waves can be generated from storms and colliding ocean swells a relatively common phenomenon in the hurricane-prone Bermuda Triangle.

A trend that is rising at a frighteningly steep pace -- a 446percentt increase in the past 15 years -- use of these procedures are becoming more common as a means to remain competitive, not only personally, but professionally as well.

Two ideas were common to reviews of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad: that the novel is brilliant and that it is frighteningly relevant in today's America.