Sentence examples for was frightful from inspiring English sources

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was frightful

adjective

Full of fright, whether

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The rapidity of the current was frightful".

In 1848, he noted, "In my youth my agony was frightful".

You wouldn't be if — I tell you this was frightful — the end of everything — the last straw!

Having said all that about the Cybermen, the scene of Craig's conversion was frightful in the other sense.

"The noise of the banks falling seemed like the boom of a cannon, and it was frightful," Inocente Ochoa, a prominent resident of Juárez, recalled decades later.

I conceded that this was frightful, but I reminded her that a park attendant in Europe was a sort of Commander-in-Chief of Leaves and Flowers and First Admiral of Public Fountains and of the paper boats in them.

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They are frightful places.

Alone, these numbers are frightful.

The risks of the Great Game were frightful.

You'll want to remember it in a few months when the weather is frightful.

oh, the weather outside is frightful, The heat wave brutal and spiteful.

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