Sentence examples for frightful for from inspiring English sources

Such losses are frightful for a region of perhaps 300,000 people.

Still, unveiling the killer may make this Halloween a little less frightful for North American bats.

In Bolen's terms, these forms of art and characters represent the realm of Hades, lord of the underworld, shadow spaces that historically have been frightful for people to explore and are often incorrectly equated with evil.

Take, for instance, the job fair, a kind of frightful free-for-all for the unemployed.

Hepburn recalled, "He looked so happy to be done with living, which for all his accomplishments had been a frightful burden for him".

Still, it was an especially frightful moment for the Yankees, who lost third baseman Scott Brosius for a month when his hand was broken by a pitch last Wednesday.

True, Nigel Molesworth thought Grabber, the head boy, a frightful clot for winning numerous prizes, but Molesworth was a comic figure.

The surgeons sighed and acceded to Perkins' wishes, loading him on an ambulance that bumped and rocked its way northward over Virginia's frightful roads for two days.

Robert Ryan's portrayal of an over-the-hill prizefighter who refuses to take a dive and pays a frightful price for his decision is a tour de force.

You fall to bits in your 40s – a frightful decade for me – but fall back together in your 50s in some miraculous way.

It is unmistakably sub-par hokum, but it is early in the year, the weather is frightful and for the moment it will do.