Sentence examples for frightful bore from inspiring English sources
That it's a frightful bore, and he doesn't like snakes.
Something could be a frightful bore even if the alternative was worse.
"You are being the most frightful bore". Clark used the word often, keenly aware of its peculiarly English power to devastate.
Beryl Cook, now nearly 80, has joined forces with Nanette Newman to produce My Granny Was a Frightful Bore (But She Isn't Any More) (Collins, £9.99, 5+).
Don't you think Leavis is a frightful old bore?
Martin could not bear to look at Kidd after his frightful collision in Game 3 with the Hornets David Wesleyy.
General Manager Al Bianchi would bear the brunt of the decision not to re-sign King one night in January 1991 when he returned as a Washington Bullet with his frightful game face to haunt the Knicks with 49 points while fans serenaded Bianchi with "Al must go".
The Kapalikas used the skulls as bowls for liquor into which they projected and worshipped Shiva as Kapalika, the "Skull Bearer," or Bhairava, the "Frightful One," and then drank to become intoxicated.
But they have a frightful clarity even today.
Representations of the religious have become frightful and shocking.
