Sentence examples for frightful with from inspiring English sources

The weather promises to be frightful, with temperatures in the 30's, brisk winds and possible snow showers.

THE weather was certifiably frightful, with storm-conscious cancellations the order of the day and night every place on Long Island, it seemed, but one.

Interviews with those who oversaw the recovery suggest a rescue mission both thrilling and frightful, with officials at times alternating between a compulsion to cling to protocol and to toss it aside.

The weather was varied but frightful -- with rain and snow showers and slick, even icy, road conditions -- but the rear-drive wagon got us where we needed to go.

It seems absurd to call a game in the first week of October a must-win, but this is as close as it gets -- particularly because the next quarter is frightful, with games against Miami and St . Louisat home, and Carolina and New Orleans on the road.

Just in time for Halloween, David Bowie is getting frightful with some old puppets and ghost-like face paint in his new video for "Love Is Lost".

Boycie (John Challis) — A shady used car salesman and a frightful snob with a machine gun laugh who "thinks anyone with a pound less than him is a peasant", according to Rodney in "Fatal Extraction".

He'd always had the most frightful difficulties with them.

The stories of peril are frightful, but with a strong sense of mockery.

When Mattiace then went into the water at No. 17, Leonard reached the frightful hole with a four-stroke lead.

There have been a handful of frightful encounters with the birds, mostly in their native Australia, though the last known death happened in 1926, according to Smithsonian Magazine.