Sentence examples for is that frightful from inspiring English sources

"Who is that frightful little woman?" she asked.

He may well have been guilty of a lumberingly clumsy come-on but, in the world of grown-ups, is that such frightful crime?

Among plenty of great archive material, my favourite clip was that of a frightful couple, interviewed in 1967 on Man Alive, who patiently explained that they used the cane on their children "when they start leaping about on the furniture and that sort of thing".

The Yankees are hoping that he sheds that frightful reputation, hoping that a new uniform, a new environment, plusher towels and colder sports drinks will transform Benitez into the perfect caddie to Mariano Rivera.

What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!

She added: "Individuals won empowering rights and recognition with this legislation – it's frightful that safeguards are not being observed.

They can do something, of course, and they do, but it is frightful to watch that only a few can survive the day to day while dozens of human lives are ruined.

A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

The outcome is a frightful timidity in public discussion of issues that ought to be publicly critiqued.

According to Isaiah Berlin, a close friend of the composer, Stravinsky informed him that he had no intention of hearing his music being "murdered by that frightful butcher".

Intimacy here is frightful (everyone appears to live alone), especially that closeness that suggests that the replicants might be indistinguishable from us.