Sentence examples for most frightful from inspiring English sources
Suddenly the most frightful rumpus breaks out.
There were 1021 victims of New York's most frightful catastrophe.
This is our America in a most frightful time.
He'd always had the most frightful difficulties with them.
We repress ourselves monstrously and twist ourselves into the most frightful knots.
Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject".
General Dempsey's senior medical officer said to-day that Belsen camp near Bremen, with thousands of typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis cases, was "the most horrible, frightful place" he had ever seen.
A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted to a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.
They hatch a plan and visit a ghost agency to send the most terrifyingly frightful spooks The Shriekers (some of the nastiest ghosts you will come across) to the Hall to drive Oliver dead with fear.
Get a load of this: "A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings", with elements of "an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", "but it was the general outline of the whole that made it most shockingly frightful".
It is hard to imagine our northern landscape being described as the 'wildest, most barren and frightful of any place.' It is hard to imagine the gateway to Lake District or the Pennines being dismissed as where the 'pleasant part of England was at an end.' Yet these words by Daniel Defoe articulated the views of the majority at the turn of the 18th century.
