Sentence examples for frightful if from inspiring English sources

Yet a monumental rendition of the "boy's suffering" interlude, together with Paul Silverthorne's impassioned viola solo, implied that Grimes was guilty of something frightful, if not Mrs. Sedley's "murder most foul".

Cancer would seem a dreary, frightful topic if it weren't also such a universal one.

Main-course pig's cheek with pommes mousseline looked frightful – as if someone had dolloped two large spoonfuls of Branston pickle on to a bed of mash, ignorantly embedded with bits of broccoli and carrot.

It all sounds quite frightful -- if only it were true.

We are headed towards a frightful future if we don't address this growing pandemic now.

If you know any such children, and the weather outside is frightful — and even if it's not — "Let It Snow!" is a delightful escape: art to be enjoyed inside the Bruce's citadel and afterward, a playground waiting at the bottom of the hill.

Something could be a frightful bore even if the alternative was worse.

THE weather outside may be frightful, but not if you've stocked up on the latest cold weather tools and toys to create your own winter carnival.

In a measured retrospective of his life, he refers now to "the frightful conflict", as if its horror has at last sunk in, but it is still experienced rather as part of the shock of the new, part of what he calls, famously, "cette longue querelle de la tradition et de l'invention / De l'Ordre et de l'Aventure".

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

If the weather's frightful, people will mostly freak out, but you can turn that around.