Sentence examples for frightfully well from inspiring English sources

I remember one day when things were going frightfully well I went to buy myself a really smashing car.

We still get on frightfully well, but I'm surprised that after all the changes they still want me".

I've met Radcliffe several times over the years, but I'm always left with the same impression: frightfully well mannered, genuine and good-humoured.

Samuels was by a distance West Indies' highest run‑scorer in the tournament (with 181) even if Warne did not think he played frightfully well in the semi-final against India.

'You are thrust into a great emotional turmoil, even though you think you can manage frightfully well, and you know what to do and all that.' The suddenness makes it harder to accept.

It didn't go frightfully well for Bryce, 18-2-149-0, though there must – in the manner of Chris Cowdrey – be a damn good after-dinner routine there somewhere.

A frightfully well-spoken Englishwoman in her early 50s.

"Are Mr Frost's amusing and possibly true tales of Henman's sister-in-law and Diana's god children not just a roundabout way of telling us how frightfully well-connected he is?" asks a frightfully well-connected-sounding Giles Helding.

Given Scott Thomas has built a career on playing frightfully well-bred women – A Handful of Dust, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gosford Park – it's unsurprising she found it difficult to flick her "bitch switch", as Refn gleefully calls it.

Orsini's friend and fellow lady-killer was the frightfully well-endowed Porfirio Rubirosa, of the 11-inch notoriety.

In 1960 Terry-Thomas appeared as Raymond Delauney in School for Scoundrels, a film his biographer, Robert Ross, called "the definitive screen presentation of his frightfully well-mannered, well-read and well-educated lounge lizard: T-T the man as T-T the film star".