Sentence examples for terrifying year from inspiring English sources

In the terrifying year of 1940, as country after country in Europe fell to Hitler's tanks, planes and bombs, F.D.R. ran for an unprecedented third term and hoped to forge a bipartisan foreign policy team.

He was bullied at school for one terrifying year, after which he became a bully himself, began to smoke at the age of seven and to con money out of people by crying outside the post office and pretending he had no money for stamps to write home to his parents.

So they lived through what must have been the most terrifying year of their lives, while I wandered through one dangerous situation after another.

2016 has been a terrifying year so far what with the most ridiculous, high stakes presidential race in history, wars raging all over the world, a global immigration crisis, and the nagging feeling that we just aren't quite doing enough to tackle that climate change thing.

After sitting down at my designated table I suddenly had the urge to laugh: Imagine me, a vertically challenged, chatty-as-anything history and English student, seated at the center of a table that encompassed precisely three incredibly tall university athletes, two politics majors, one terrified first year, and my professor.

But why weren't there countless others in the months proceeding November's Vanity Fair piece in which Dylan, now a fully grown woman, came forward and embraced her voice and the validity of the claims she was too scared to make on the stand as a terrified seven year old?

He produced a larger figure each year, terrifying the art world.

The military successes of the "barbarians" (who were themselves completely indifferent to the Christian system of computing dates) would have been terrifying in any year.

A year later, we returned to Six Flags, and sure enough, the kids were now nonchalant, pronouncing rides "boring" that they found terrifying just a year before.

So, when he's asked by Sheriff Bannerman of Castle Rock to help with a murder – there's a raincoat-wearing serial killer on the loose, whose modus operandi is to murder one woman a year, terrifying a small town – we want him to succeed.

Jerilyn Patton's take on footwork's been terrifying us all year.