Sentence examples for in a frightened from inspiring English sources

The young man paused, then added in a frightened voice, "I just want to say that for the first time in my life, I'm utterly, completely confused".

"People always ask, in a frightened way, who is going to be in the audience in the next generation?" he said.

What is inescapably evident, even from a quick reading of this tale of a puritanical young king who pits his authority against that of an immortal and amoral god, is the warm, thick darkness that courses through it like blood in a frightened animal.

Many people remain as reluctant to address mortal diseases as they were in the Depression-era world of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (which opens in a Broadway revival on Sunday), when the word cancer was to be spoken only in a frightened whisper.

"Austerity is what has put the people in a frightened, disenfranchised position.

When people speak in a frightened tone about the normalization of Donald Trump, this is the precise phenomenon to which they speak.

She added, "If we don't see what we expect to see — if a frightened character in a video game doesn't have the wide eyes, deep wrinkles in the forehead, arched eyebrows, and vertical wrinkle between the eyes which signal fear to most of us — we're disoriented".

First, as the MS took hold; year by year stripping her body of function, of mobility, of dignity, of stamina; shrinking her life and her horizons inexorably to turn the confident, vibrant woman who I had met in 1982 into a frightened, emaciated and helpless figure in a wheelchair; for whom medical science could do nothing and for whom the future held only further deterioration and pain.

At midnight in the camp, Charles Mauldin, aged seventeen, the head of the Dallas County Student Union and a student at Selma's Hudson High School, which is Negro, was awakened in the security tent by several guards, who ushered in a rather frightened-looking Negro boy.

There is Don Ciro (Gianfelice Imparato), whose name hints at potency, but who is, in fact, a frightened hireling in a cheap blouson, distributing cash to those families who exist on the say-so of the Camorra.

Mencius argues that the King has the ability to be a genuine king and not merely a king in name only because of the compassion he displayed in sparing a frightened ox from sacrificial slaughter.