"terrifying fate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a frightening or tragic outcome of a situation. For example, "She was unable to escape her terrifying fate of a miserable and lonely life."
Indigents with no relatives are buried by the county in a pauper's field — to many, a terrifying fate.
Schubert's awareness of his own prognosis – the terrifying fate of the syphilitic, the inevitable physical and mental deterioration – can only have intensified these fears.
I rewrote the chapter so that the protagonist experiences a similar spooky encounter, although she meets a far more terrifying fate than I.
For one thing, sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon - as in other countries - portends a terrifying fate that a mere spark could unleash.
When it did, the fluted columns of Wren churches would lie wrecked and broken and Henry Moore's figures would huddle in the tube like the wraithlike denizens of Hades or wind their wool like implacable, terrifying Fates.
It depicts the terrifying fates of the passengers, such as the drowning of children and human chains of passengers jumping to their deaths.
A new film nominates heavy-metal music, looking at the sometimes surreal, sometimes terrifying, and always inspiring fate of an Iraqi metal band.
Like many asylum seekers, Beriwan's parents were so terrified of their fate in their native country that they risked their lives in travelling to Germany and then later, with the children, to the UK for a new start.
There is, still, a sense of doom about awards handed out to the Detroit Free Press (a dying paper in a dying city) and the New York Times (a dying institution whose fate terrifies the industry).And there's a small story in the award for editorial commentary, given to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.
Climate denial, one might similarly argue, is a way not to feel terrified about the fate of the environment, yet makes things worse – though the same might be said for giving up plastic shopping bags, then imagining you've "done your bit", and need do no more.
Although the other woman's fate terrifies her, instead of demanding a room change, Wadler crosses the barrier between the two beds, introduces herself, then gives her roomie a foot massage and listens to her life story.
