Sentence examples for too frightful from inspiring English sources

The weather outside isn't usually too frightful in Florida when the holidays come around.

Looks a little frightful, too: Ms. Thomas likens rhubarb to "a crazy pink monster" emerging from the ground.

"The waters beyond" the Strait of Gibraltar, Winchester writes, "were simply too fantastic and frightful to even think of braving".

He is also famous for a frightful stew like the one that appears in this book.

Oh, also, have some seriously frightful fun.

I remember, too, being resentful of the cancer's frightful power.

Indeed, to all the great Western trading powers of the day — much of whose wealth was built on the labor of enslaved Africans — Haiti stood as a frightful example of freedom carried too far.

Frightful wrists, ghastly tutus, imperfect drill, too little facial charm — all these old British complaints and others were heard again.

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

For example, one reviewer wrote, "As Mr. Crane is too young a man to write from experience, the frightful details of his book must be the outcome of a very feverish imagination".

Malloch was the worst affected; he died on 17 May, but his tent-mate Mamen was too ill to see to his burial, so the body lay in the tent for several days, creating a "frightful smell", until McKinlay arrived to help.