Sentence examples for frightful extent from inspiring English sources

He also passed along a written proposal from the rebel commander to appoint commissioners from both sides to establish terms for Vicksburg's surrender as a means "to save the further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent".

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

Carter, Kennedy writes, "maintains that, at least with respect to certain topics, most notably affirmative action, a prevailing orthodoxy exerts undue pressure, stigmatizing dissident positions to such an extent that people holding heterodox ideas either silence themselves or speak out knowing that they will pay a frightful price with their reputations".

How frightful!

Those frightful Karinska tutus!

They are frightful places.

They sound frightful.

Frightful medical sights.

There followed a frightful beating.

Onions and a frightful stew.

The school was absolutely frightful.