Sentence examples for given a fright from inspiring English sources

No majestic life lessons presented themselves in compensation for having been given a fright.

Wales were given a fright but had the class and stamina to withstand the blows.

Leigh were given a fright by Halifax before coming through 40-20.

"We had started the tournament well but after beating South Africa we took our foot off the pedal against Samoa and were given a fright.

His third goal in as many games was a perfectly executed nerve settler for a Charlton side who had been given a fright by a bunch of plucky Londoners in the last round.

The hosts were given a fright just before the interval when Weir's clearance was charged down by Orquera.

The event closed with an explosion of red, white and blue ticker tape – giving a fright to Trafalgar Square's famous pigeons – and the athletes left the stage for their next social event: an audience with the Queen.

The lowdown This tablet uses the latest version of the Android operating system – something that could well give a fright to people more used to Apple's user-friendly iOS.

The spooky name was then taken up by bartenders to describe a stupefying rum highball; at the turn of the millennium, the supposedly strolling stiffs, capable of giving a fright even to vampires, reappeared to denote a series of computers taken over by evil geeks to be used in concert to bombard a target site with choking data.

They had posters outside advertising tickets against Carlisle, Accrington Stanley and Newport County, yet Liverpool were given a genuine fright by a club with a player in attack known as "Beast" and a queue of officials getting their pre-match grub in the greasy spoon, Fat Boy's, just round the corner.

Worcester were given a similar fright by London Scottish in their semi-final first-leg, before running out 27-22 winners.