Sentence examples for had fearsome from inspiring English sources

Pep won in a rematch, but Saddler, who had fearsome knockout power, captured their last two fights.

Put that together with the extraordinary dangers of combat — airmen only had a fifty-per-cent chance of surviving their thirty-to-forty mission tours of duty--and you had fearsome statistics.

Jewel was another obsessive climber who knew his limitations but was prepared to exploit his rich vein of mind control to impressive effect, soloing routes on big mountain crags that had fearsome reputations for being either loose, sustained, strenuous or sometimes all three at once.

LEILA HADDAD Skirball Center for the Performing Arts The Tunisian dancer Leila Haddad must have fearsome abdominal muscles.

These groups have fearsome fighters but do not take orders from the Free Syrian Army, which has criticized attacks on civilians including a recent spree of deadly car bombings.

It also has fearsome police officers, who may not be so tolerant of the masses as they are of the fur-coat set.

Despite the rapids not exceeding Grade Three (others have fearsome Grade Five status) it still promised to be a white-knuckle ride if our rafting leader Hari's safety briefing was anything to go by.

While this extrajudicial system has fearsome power, it has many serious flaws.

Velociraptor was known to have fearsome sickle-shaped talons on the second toe of each foot; it kept these talons off the ground like foldable switchblades.

Like other death-bringing viral hemorrhagic fevers, Ebola probably has fearsome weaponization potential, as do antibiotic-resistant superbugs, SARS and of course the flu, which has been history's nastiest pandemic.

It appeared to me at the time that our gang had a fearsome reputation, though I suppose by today's standards we weren't really at all fearsome . .