Sentence examples for frightful and from inspiring English sources

It was pretty frightful and scared the pants off the birds - and the cats.

I became more reclusive, more frightful, and in a way, a hostage to events, to fate.

Instead it is a treasure trove of the marvellous, frightful and bizarre.

Eavesdropping, he overhears this great center fielder lamenting the country's slide into a "frightful and angry land".

Only a term of unusual excellent in office can pay off this frightful and burdensome public debt.

The urge to hibernate is strong in January, when the weather is frightful and bed looks like the most inviting place in town.

Ms. Pearson cites an 18th-century English treatise blaming city living for "a class and set of distempers, with atrocious and frightful symptoms, scarce known to our Ancestors," that is, "nervous disorders" afflicting a third of the population.

You entered the world blue and lifeless and I was the one who saw that most frightful thing and felt life end and wanted so badly to hear you wail at the top of your lungs.

Any real efforts to reform North Korea and alleviate its frightful food and power shortage will mean slashing military spending.

As if unable to tune out the most hectic and staticky stations, the director fills the film with references — redeemed from kitsch by their frightful power and depth of associations, personal and historical — to nuclear war, the Second World War, and the concentration camps.

The whole story is so exactly characteristi of our age; the gaudy, hysterical surroundings, the over-stimulated citizen, the sudden frightful apparition, and then the cataclysm, feeling guilty and innocent alike.