Sentence examples for terrible fright from inspiring English sources

Always on the lookout, Horobin recently had a terrible fright.

I woke in a terrible fright and there he was — the intruder we'd all been waiting for.

Somebody, maybe Fabis, said that it was susto, fright, that was making it hard for her to breathe, that once she calmed down she'd be able to breathe, and I repeated to her, "Aura, you've had a terrible fright — that's why you can't breathe.

Without her, for good or ill, no Twilight... J is for Jane Eyre Jane Eyre suffers a terrible fright when a nocturnal visitor comes to her bedroom; the next day, she tries to explain to Mr Rochester that what she saw was no common English ghost: "This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed; the black eyebrows wide raised over the blood-shot eyes.

Doctors say that "in extreme circumstances, you can even be 'scared to death,'" where "a terrible fright can result in a massive surge of adrenaline that stuns the heart so badly it stops beating".

I have terrible stage fright.

I have always had terrible stage fright.

A Texas-born singer-songwriter, Orbison suffered from terrible stage fright.

It was suffering from terrible stage fright that fortuitously settled her on the path of directing.

I also had terrible stage fright, and I took speech and mime classes to overcome it.

She suffered terrible stage fright before her first season at Stratford.