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How to use frightening in a sentence

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Urged on by the players, the drivers of the mules took some frightening risks.
It's easy, but frightening, to imagine Eagles coach Andy Reid turning cartwheels if he actually were to get Williams.
Their powerful engines pushed these race cars along at a frightening turn of speed.
There was a gargle of noise, it was scary, my image blurred, the noise was deafening and frightening, as a monster was emerging.
Consequently, Bjornebye was left with acute double vision and he spent the next four months in a frightening twilight world.
I now owe frightening sums of moolah, but should be able to clear my credit cards, thereby reducing my monthly repayment costs considerably.
Nothing is more frightening to me than the pitch dark on a moonless night in the countryside with no street lights.
Some of the figures Computer Weekly journalists have been given unattributably are truly frightening.
A string of uncommonly frightening encounters and a grimy dark feel sets the bar.
With equipment parts manufactured by other companies, the demands it puts on its suppliers can be frightening.
The support and understanding parents provide can help kids accept their most frightening emotions.
The psychological effect on farmers, already economically under the cosh, was frightening.
While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates.
It's a bit demoralising riding into the headwinds, and the sidewinds can be a frightening.
The people were frightening, mutton dressed as lamb springs to mind, the people watching will certainly keep you entertained.
As a child, I liked the frightening part of the story, but also its mysteriousness.
The consequences of being uninsured are frightening for all races, the study found.
Parents have to answer serious charges by a number of authority figures unaided, unrepresented, and in a potentially frightening environment.
His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
The place had a uniformed commissionaire, a dress circle and rude behaviour was ruthlessly stamped out by frightening torch-wielding usherettes.
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As a matter of course, the convives had left the table, and alarm was frightening the servants into sobriety.
The lovely lips twisted into a rictus sneer, frightening on that smooth young face, until she got them under control.
You'll forgive me for frightening you, but it is best you should be forewarned.
These machines must be safe to ride in, but the bogy of radiation was frightening.
But Turkey's suggestion about frightening her away kept working in my brain.
This particular news story seemed more frightening than most, but still it was taken more or less as shuddery entertainment.
I should make no scruple of frightening him within an inch of his life, for his good.
And this unexpected accusation, instead of frightening her, only served to embolden her.
The result is a frightening increase in strains of tubercle bacilli that no longer respond to drug treatment.
Am I frightening good men who might have volunteered and done well?
Next day he moved into a pollard willow near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats.
His lopsided grin was as frightening as the cardinal's angry stare.
They are so pro-European it is frightening, dare we ever let these politically inept betrayers gain power again?
March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance.
I was anxious to meet my daughters quickly, to know the reason of their foolish alarm, and to know also who had been frightening them.
He was always frightening me, always breaking out with fresh astonishers, in new and unexpected places.
I wished to regurgitate, to cast off this cold, frightening sensation.
Unless you have been there you cannot imagine what a frightening effect this steady come-down of troops has on the spectators, even when they know it is only a review.
Vail's first step, naturally, was to stiffen up the backbone of this little company, and to prevent the Western Union from frightening it into a surrender.
They often tell me they find the British press frightening and outrageous, and certainly the Westminster press pack are far less biddable than their Chinese counterparts.
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