Sentence examples for into frightened from inspiring English sources

A rash of layoffs in recent years had turned employees into frightened animals.

A young woman covered with a white headscarf, she halted only for a moment to answer questions before bursting into frightened tears.

But then you notice that the light fading (a Minecraft days lasts only 20 real-time minutes) and all of a sudden you are transformed from blithe tourist into frightened rabbit.

"He tapped into the frightened child in me," Ms. Stamberg recalled.

It was an ominous punctuation mark on the wave of terror that has turned this cotton farming town near Texas into a frightened outpost of the drug war.

Compare that warm scene with the climax of his far bleaker Meet John Doe, released seven months before Pearl Harbor into a frightened and isolationist America still mired in recession.

On the 1989 DVD from the Met's previous "Walküre," directed by Otto Schenk, Wotan (James Morris) looks into the frightened but devoted eyes of Brünnhilde (Hildegard Behrens), as he casts his spell.

This line from a poem I had written two decades ago jumped into my mind when the youth of Tunisia turned their ruler from a mighty dictator into a frightened rat looking for a place to hide and, in a month of civilian protests, managed to change history.

Its characters become incoherent (Ian turns abruptly from uncompromising rebel into a frightened cry-baby), while its pretensions to moral seriousness give way to a manipulation of anxious thrills that require the reader to stop caring about anything except whether these flimsy creations will save their skins and their money.

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.

In Washington, men in the regiment broke into taverns, frightened women, swedged on meals and pursued imagined Confederates.