Sentence examples for more frightful from inspiring English sources

But Saturday night and Sunday morning were more frightful than amusing.

I became more reclusive, more frightful, and in a way, a hostage to events, to fate.

But nowhere has the face of this epidemic been more frightful than on Long Island, where a pair of pharmacy robberies 30 miles apart resulted in six deaths.

Instead, you must duck and roll away from your attackers' lunges, engaging in primal battles between closely matched opponents, retreating to recover strength and health, before heading into the throng again, to take on ever more frightful horrors.

In his 1982 book Nature and Madness, American ecologist Paul Shepard remarked: "The only society more frightful than one run by children, as in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, might be one run by childish adults".

Now the week pivots from baseball to golf, where the legend in the British Open is not one of the participants (sorry, Tiger) but the course, and St. Andrews greets the field with an even more frightful Road Hole, wrote Bob Harig on ESPN.com.

Still, overall, more delightful than frightful.

The results are more fantastical than frightful, he explained.

Shiffman spent six months investigating the LaRose story and concludes that contrary to the image of the dangerous terrorist portrayed in much of the media at the time of her arrest, what happened "proved more farcical than frightful, more absurd than ominous".

And what was at one end of the misunderstanding — the suicide's smashed body — would be seen, in the telling, to be hardly more foul and frightful than her own menstrual blood.

But he called the more recent decline "really frightful".