Sentence examples for were so frightened by from inspiring English sources

We were so frightened by the darkness and the sound of guns.

Reports from the field in the last few days showed that some United Nations troops were so frightened by the reputation of the rebels that they abandoned their vehicles as soon as they were stopped at a roadblock by the rebels.

Workers were so frightened by the riots that they left their machinery in the open in an attempt to limit additional damage.

After the trial was over, defendant Gates wrote: "The anti-communist hysteria was so intense, and most Americans were so frightened by the Communist issue, that we were convicted before our trial even started".

It was as if the good ole boys were so frightened by the way the new Texas looked and sounded, that they were going to do whatever they had to do to try and stop change from happening.

"The elephants are so frightened by humans that they will not drink," Mark wrote.

Why do you think we're so frightened by the idea of a child who doesn't express "appropriate" emotions?

She was so frightened by the anti-Rightist campaigns in the nineteen-fifties that she became mentally ill.

On election day, people are so frightened by soldiers that no one walks the streets except the lunatics, "dazed and smiling, unexpected lords of the city".

"People are so frightened by being wrong," he continued, "I figure that it doesn't matter if you're wrong, if you're sometimes right.

There are further reports of women who are so frightened by their experience of the family court that they return to live with violent partners.