Sentence examples for pretty frightful from inspiring English sources

Or he may turn out to be pretty frightful.

It was pretty frightful and scared the pants off the birds - and the cats.

Yes, they can be a thorn in the side of government (as Thatcher would tell you) but they also moderate and make good some pretty frightful drafting (as I remember their approach to the then housing bill 1996).

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

Mr. Lacy is one of the most charismatic trombone players in jazz -- a pretty charismatic bunch to begin with -- and his music is raucous and funereal, frightful and happy and mournful, from bebop to rhythm-and-blues to free improvisation.

Without wishing to sound like a frightful Little Englander, American rock that doesn't transfer to Britain traditionally has a pretty baleful reputation.

How frightful!

Those frightful Karinska tutus!

They are frightful places.

They sound frightful.

Frightful medical sights.