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Example sentences for "frightening"

Lexicographically close words:
frigging; fright; frighted; frighten; frightened; frightens; frightful; frightfullest; frightfully; frightfulness
  1. She succeeded in frightening the Sow as much as the Eagle.

  2. Then he went about frightening every one he met, for they all took him to be a lion, men and beasts alike, and took to their heels when they saw him coming.

  3. Her manner to Sylvia just now had been almost dangerously changed; there had been a queer cold impatience in her look, frightening from one who but three months ago had been so affectionate.

  4. The black figure, with long pale fingers touching the paler piano keys, had a frightening actuality.

  5. At times, her face was like a child's when it expects some harsh or frightening word.

  6. That was a bitter and frightening hour under the faintly rustling ash-tree, while the wind sprinkled over her flakes of the may blossom, just past its prime.

  7. It was a most wicked blow; and, considering the service the creature had just done me in frightening off the wildebeest, a most ungrateful return.

  8. Taking up positions at wide intervals from each other, the Indians succeeded in frightening and mystifying the bucks, and gradually driving them towards the spot for which the main body of the hunt was now making.

  9. It stopped and turned, frightening the horse, which threw its rider within a few yards of the maddened brute.

  10. When they'd traveled about half a mile, another frightening thought occurred to Coburn.

  11. You don't paint a frightening picture," complained the skipper ironically.

  12. On this eminence he swelled and contracted again, with ebb and flow of feathers; but Clement lost this, for he quite closed his eyes and scarce drew his breath in fear of frightening and losing his visitor.

  13. Then Clement determined to try and feed this pretty little fidget without frightening it away.

  14. Help me to get him into his own room without frightening Miss Mary.

  15. They've been robbing and frightening people in all directions.

  16. Frightening him will not be very difficult.

  17. He’s been frightening me,” declared suddenly the lady who sat by the side of Mr Vladimir, with an inclination of the head towards that gentleman.

  18. You're punished for frightening Vera; and if you kill me she'll cry till her eyes are red, but no one will cry for you.

  19. This is why you find he has so many malicious tricks and ways of frightening women who are with child, and causes such misfortune, cunning, murder, etc.

  20. Such deeds are, however, evidence enough, and for the sake of frightening others they ought to be made an example.

  21. You thought me hard on him, Albinia; but really I could not help being angry with him for so lamentably frightening his father and you.

  22. He then was persuaded that the Meadowses had been harassing and frightening Albinia into this startling measure.

  23. If she is right, Rob must have succeeded in frightening the boys into telling no other person, for certainly the scandal did not spread in Thrums.

  24. If it were so," stammered Glynn, "it would only be another proof that you are frightening her.

  25. When it is very cold they even come into the houses for food and warmth, and no one thinks of frightening them or trying to catch them.

  26. It will bring you nearer to the bird without frightening him.

  27. They will come into a barn or a house when the weather is cold, or they are hungry, and no man or boy thinks of frightening or hurting them.

  28. Dinah, are you sure it isn't all this pomp and circumstance that is frightening you?

  29. Why, I believe Scott has been frightening you," she said.

  30. What the plague's frightening you and Crowe now?

  31. Their judicious conversation was not without an effect commensurate with the rarity of the exertion, for between them they had succeeded in frightening poor Beatrix a good deal.

  32. These two, the clouds and the sun, were evidently bent on mischief, frightening little waves and painters and bright-eyed children and good priests who loved them!


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frightening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarming; awesome; chilling; deterrent; disconcerting; discouraging; disheartening; dismaying; disquieting; dreadful; eerie; fearful; fearsome; formidable; frightening; frightful; ghastly; grim; gruesome; hairy; harrowing; horrible; intimidation; macabre; menacing; scary; startling; terrible; terrifying; touchy; truculent