Sentence examples for overly frightened from inspiring English sources

The ASPCA is not overly frightened, but in cooperation with the Board of Health, is doing its best to impound stray dogs & to warn dog owners to keep their pets on leash.

But if you want to make methane leakage sound scarier than it really is, you can present the short term GWPw (global warming potential per unit of weight) of 25 or 72, rather than the long term GWPfm of 3.3 or 10, and perhaps hope that the reader will do the mistaken calculation and come away overly frightened by the large value.

Now in its 10th season, "Nick News" was inaugurated during the gulf war when Geraldine Laybourne, then Nickelodeon's president, worried that American children were becoming overly frightened because of the nonstop information disseminated on channels like CNN.

"Some children, especially when they first started attending class, were overly hesitant and frightened of contact with people and couldn't engage with other children," says another teacher.

And both of these old men, in dealing with the people whose backing they needed, seemed to exhibit contrasting defects of advanced age: the overly garrulous Mr O'Neill frightened the markets, the overly secretive Mr Rumsfeld alienated the generals.

At the same time, texting can make a youngster feel frightened and overly exposed".

Frightened works, too.

"I'm an inwardly frightened, hostile, bitter, self-hating child," he tells Mr. Coulson in the first half, "who projects an overly friendly, overly sexual persona to navigate through a world he doesn't trust".

And frightened.

"Patients are frightened; physicians are frightened.

People were nonetheless frightened.