Sentence examples for frightful in from inspiring English sources

Having said all that about the Cybermen, the scene of Craig's conversion was frightful in the other sense.

The weather outside isn't usually too frightful in Florida when the holidays come around.

For one frightful, forgettable inning, they forgot how to play at all, and the game and their season disintegrated in 13-5 loss in the fifth game of the American League Championship Series.

Halloween Literacy Try one of our Halloween-themed fill-ins, in which words and phrases are removed from a Times article and students must supply their own, or choose from a scrambled list: Smashing Pumpkins, Frightful Fill-In, Ghostly Hotel and Halloween on Discount.

In their advance, Cossacks in White service carried out frightful pogroms in Ukraine in which an estimated 100,000 Jews lost their lives.

If he did so plan, the obvious place to incorporate the final maxim of the canon would have been in connection with the frightful sufferings in the great Athenian plague, horrifyingly described in the poem's closing verses.

Even more woeful than the kleptocratic gangsterism that has replaced Soviet rule in "the Stans" is the frightful violence in the Caucasus.

'HISTORY OF BRITAIN' -- The bloody, tumultuous course of British history resonated in frightful new ways in the brilliant seven-hour second installment of Simon Schama's series on the History Channel.

Grant, after his frightful losses in the tangled thickets of the Wilderness and under assault back home in Washington, "turned southward to flank Lee's right rather than retreating in the face of bloody casualties" as had his predecessors.

R. & H. go on to report the frightful conditons in the American Home.

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