Sentence examples for not a fright from inspiring English sources

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Though his own résumé is heavy with horror — he has worked on possible remakes of "Pet Sematary" and "Creature From the Black Lagoon" — Mr. Kajganich stressed that "True Story" is not a fright film about the Longo family murders.

Having said that, Zika is not a "fright and flight" disease like Ebola; it does not spread rapidly from person to person via bodily fluids or provoke terrifying symptoms.

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We have an outfield that would not put a fright into a Class AAA opponent.

"City will get the job done at West Brom but not without a fright.

Store the remaining sauce in a properly labeled bottle; don't give anyone a fright when they don't know that there is a peppery taste involved!

Owen Coyle was encouraged by his team's opening, which not only gave Arsenal a fright but also stifled them to the point that Jussi Jaaskelainen had been largely untroubled as he trotted off for a half-time breather.

"I think you're the first person to get a Victoria Cross for bravery just for stepping out of the shade in Afghanistan," he said during the ITV1 transmission, "I mean a ginger in that heat!" The Prince seemed to take it on the chin, laughing at Whitehall's gags, but couldn't resist giving him a fright following the performance.

But children also adapt quickly, and not all frights are unpleasant: peekaboo, after all, is one of the first games any child plays, and "Hansel and Gretel" introduces readers to cannibalism before inviting them to celebrate the burning of a witch.

If you don't want to give yourself a fright when you come downstairs in the morning, go for Metalux, frosted glass with mirror backing that has a luminous butterfly-wing effect, supplied and fitted for about £150 per square metre.

A footnote for Bursaspor, who might have engineered a fright were they not such hopeless finishers.

(Which I made even worse for the next tenant as my snake escaped. Not even joking. Someone got a fright when installing new cupboards, that's for sure).

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