Sentence examples for were fearsome from inspiring English sources

Their captors were fearsome, but restrained.

If Pixies were fearsome but fraught, the 2013-edition Breeders have a ­different byword: fun.

We were fearsome creatures, chained to our caring, chained to other people.

Perhaps once these jihad warriors were fearsome, but in the end they were too scared to go outside.

Public health officials in the grip of "eradication fever," he tells us, were fearsome to behold, not above using force when necessary.

But, as Wheatcroft repeatedly demonstrates, the Habsburgs were fearsome too, and perhaps even crueler than their opponents, engaging not only in full-scale massacres but in flayings, beheadings and impalements.

She is fearsome.

The alternative is fearsome.

The tax burden is fearsome.

He was fearsome.

Some of the figures are fearsome.