Sentence examples for were frightful from inspiring English sources
adjective
Full of fright, whether
The risks of the Great Game were frightful.
One Union soldier wrote that "the piles of dead... were frightful".
His overall average,.252, wasn't all that bad, and his seven home runs were encouraging, but his strikeouts — 98 in 282 at-bats — were frightful.
Its acoustics were frightful and its orchestra pit so constructed that the conductor had to sit on a sort of pulpit and wave down to the musicians, and up to his singers.
Finally, in yet another sign of a tapped-out economy, October's Consumer Sentiment numbers were released on Halloween and, fittingly, were frightful.
They'd bought it hook, line and stinker, but the lyrics were frightful, banal shit about the social fantasy of marriage, you know, things like never looking at other girls or guys once you've fallen for it.
They are frightful places.
Alone, these numbers are frightful.
The rapidity of the current was frightful".
In 1848, he noted, "In my youth my agony was frightful".
You'll want to remember it in a few months when the weather is frightful.
