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Sentence Examples After all a bully is somewhat similar to a stalker, they follow you, taunt you, frighten you. Men wearing masks dance among them in an attempt to frighten the child, who has to walk clockwise through this scene of carnage. This mute of hounds, dashing all over the pace, split the morning air with enough hideous din to frighten any fox out of the commune. Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all. They decided to frighten her off by firing an arrow so it would noisily strike the pot. In order to stay in office, such a government would probably do very little to frighten the horses. Labour is still afraid, or unwilling, to say exactly what it is doing, so it uses euphemisms which won't frighten the horses. The number one priority in TV comedy today is ' don't frighten the horses ', and it's probably number two and three as well. The gunmen in all cases were greeted with hospitality and obeyed requests from the owners to close gates, not break fences or frighten animals. Electric-shock prods and sharp sticks are typically used to torment and frighten the bulls into a stampede. Prior to release, electric prods and sharp sticks may well have been used to torment and frighten the bulls into a stampede. Like a doctor afraid to frighten a patient with a truthful diagnosis, it doesn't say half enough. A whole piece of chicken may frighten them away but a chicken wing keeps them content. What can we count for, if we frighten them with broken nails and agnail since first moments? They no longer frighten, and are unlikely to lead to a rebirth of that group. In these stories, beasts frighten or trick their enemies, sometimes by taking on the shapes of human beings. A man accused of practising martial arts in a town centre told a court he did not mean to frighten or alarm anyone. Instilling a feeling of insecurity is the best way to scare your population into submission and frighten away potential investors. Surly it must have been scared off by something, but what can frighten an animal that size? He seems able to frighten the life out of MPs and really does come across as being as mad as a box of frogs. Show More Sentences Grimy wards, with paint peeling, dust gathering on windowsills and numerous unidentified stains, frighten patients and demoralise staff. My husband has managed to frighten away burglars on two occasions in the past three years. The world's poorest nations seldom get the chance to frighten the super-rich. The actor recalls that his father never told the story of his internment in a way that would frighten or depress his children. And take care with sparklers, fireworks, bangers and bonfires and try not to frighten the vulnerable. The expensive, bought costumes and masks are very often inappropriate and can genuinely frighten smaller children, she adds. To frighten his enemies, he began to wear a fearsome mask when he went into battle. Mastheading involved forcing the boy to the highest part of a ship's mast, to frighten him. You might frighten her out of her senses, if it came to a struggle between you two men. Fireworks are not private nor personal as they disturb and frighten people and animals for miles around. If a flasher can frighten girls of this age, imagine the situation with multiples. These are one-man bands who get enormous coverage by producing spurious reports that set out to frighten people. One day, a villager suggested firing off fire crackers, bang loud gongs and fly red banner to try to frighten off the monster. If the animal is in your path, break firmly but avoid swerving and sound your horn in short blasts to frighten the animal away. That is still the case, although there is one demure young lass whose eldritch scream would be enough to frighten even the toughest banshee. I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. The high-ranking intelligence officers allegedly ordered guards to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten prisoners. The explosive crack of a bullwhip can frighten cattle into a pen and even keep lions and tigers at bay. I think he enjoyed putting on this gruff manner to frighten people, but underneath he was a bit of a softie. Big, strong and seemingly nerveless, he will frighten the life out of everyone when he grows up. Show More Sentences It is the plan of men of this stamp to frighten the people with ideal bugbears, in order to mould them to their own purposes. Yet other calamities could occur that might frighten governments and regulators into taking hasty action. Furthermore, an initial shot fired not to hit, but to frighten, may have sent the bruin on her way. The Autopsy of Jane Doe, isn't a film for those who frighten easily or, due to the surgical nature, have a strong case of hemophobia. And still, given a set of circumstances that frighten me by touching unhealed sensitivities in my own heart, I become flustered. Its task was to frighten people at elections so that they voted for the Fascists. Sheep frighten easily when chased causing them to possibly run into nearby rivers, sheughs or undergrowth. He used to frighten us all by shinning up lamp posts, or climbing up into the loft or on to our porch. The idea of having his child did not frighten me as much as the thought of myself being forced to marry him or subject a child to his treatment. Frequently these informants were simply adolescents seeking to frighten peers or parents, by fabricating evidence of cult ritual. Carlos is up next, and seems to rather frighten James and his simian features somewhat by being chatty before his performance. Certainly, they seemed louder and this was enough to frighten domestic animals like dogs and cats. It can paralyse state administrations and frighten its victims into variations on the Stockholm syndrome. The aircraft began a series of violent oscillations at 60 feet that would frighten even the dumbest pilot. No amount of threats will intimidate or frighten us off our path for fairness and justice. Megan and a few of the local frat boys also hide out in the Fairchild building, planning to frighten the pants off the freshmen. It was an accomplishment, to frighten the person who had so often terrified him. The whole drugs thing does frighten me, and I know it frightens other athletes. If I was cynical I would believe that he was trying to frighten us into compliance with his own authoritarian, dictatorial agenda. Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away. Show More Sentences Clark pulled the baton out of his vehicle and waved it at them to frighten them off, and was later arrested. I am not saying this to frighten you off but to give you an idea of what the world there is like. They are done to scare people and to frighten them, to make them anxious and worried. Heskey's got the power and pace to frighten anyone but must remember it's not a crime to use it. Many lizards have sharp spines, and some attempt to frighten predators with sounds. It's best to watch them from the openings rather than swimming in, because you could damage the fragile coral roofs and frighten them off. He said people should avoid wearing masks while walking from house to house as they can intimidate and frighten people. I must warn you that this image will shock and frighten you and if you are old or weak please do not look at it. A squirrel got into his birdfeeder and he tried to frighten it off with an air rifle, but he killed it instead and was sick for a week. Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin. If you have read this far and I haven't managed to frighten you off and you'd still like to hire me, then great! He was terrified, however, that his demonic heritage would frighten her off and hid it as best he could. Since it's the first living thing he's seen in ages, he pursues it and only manages to frighten it off. Often, while the facts may be correct, the presentation style sitting under a sensational headline will sell more papers but can frighten the public. Somehow, the caliginous man's intimidating demeanor always failed to discourage or frighten Josh, much less hamper his cheery, gossiping attitude. When even Ann Coulter is calling you a warmonger, it tends to frighten people. It was feared the turbine could startle horses and riders and frighten livestock, and set a precedent for mobile phone company masts to be put up. Tolkien used his Northern European imagination not to frighten but at least to compel belief in the corpulent, red-clad judge. But his stories still roar, they still frighten, they still overwhelm, they still break your heart, and they still make you want to grab the person next to you and hold on. They were afraid that the sounds and smells would frighten him more. Show More Sentences Tibetans celebrated Dosmoche, dancing in masks to frighten away the evil spirits, and Pakistanis observed Chaomos, when they purify themselves with water and goat's blood. There is little noise and no recoil to frighten a young shooter. Pagans mocked the notion as a bogy to frighten people into the Church. Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people. These Republicans still frighten voters with visions of an old age in poverty and frailty. Indeed, his inept attempts to frighten off Stewie only make the situation worse. Big scary Transformer-like robots with heads ablaze that frighten the kids back across the treacherous desert? This happens to be the perfect course of action, better to frighten you with the hellish episode of slavery. At one such function recently, this correspondent saw boys of a locality in the old city moving around with sticks in their hands to frighten away scooterists and others. Perhaps made doubly frightening because not only does the old man frighten Garfield and Odie, but he steals their candy as well. They frighten a few people, are rude to bystanders and astonish a cleaning lady. Eventually a Golden Eagle managed to frighten the snowcocks and we were rewarded with eleven birds calling as they flew in squadron formation to safety. She would attack anyone who went into her field, kicking, biting, lashing out and rearing and the more people tried to frighten her away, the worse she became. Mormo was a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia. To frighten the people sufficiently that they will gladly surrender their individual rights and those of their neighbors for the promise of security, you have to atomize them. He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him. Due to the risk of collision between birds and aircraft, large airports undertake population control programs where they frighten or shoot birds. Their goal is to frighten women who have objected to forced hijab. That should frighten every Republican out of their small thinking. The caterpillar wiggles these organs to frighten away flies and predatory wasps. Show More Sentences Buddicom recalls him swinging from the luggage rack in a railway carriage like an orangutan to frighten a woman passenger out of the compartment. His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten. Corrupt summoners would write false citations and frighten people into bribing them to protect their interests. The aim of any cavalry charge is to scatter the enemy lines and frighten the enemy off the battlefield. According to the letter over half of women with psychiatric problems have suffered abuse, restraint can cause physical harm, can frighten and humiliate the victim. You frighten me a little by the order that is all through you. Even your sins appear to have unity, whereas I keep house topsy-turvily in my innermost being. A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person, a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment. And there was a big-bellied jar in which the Queen's Henchman used to hide, and spring up at her, and frighten her, when she was but a teensy-weensy Princess like you. He's doing it by trying to frighten the bejabbers out of the public. Bottom is told by Quince that he would do the Lion so terribly as to frighten the duchess and ladies enough for the Duke and Lords to have the players hanged. It is however likely that the carvings, like those on the Oseberg ship, might have had a ritual purpose, or that the purported effect was to frighten enemies and townspeople. People are also advised to not set their dogs on the muntjacs in a bid to frighten them away as the family pet could come off worse if it corners a buck with 5in antlers. The final triumph, where the children frighten the spirit goblins into knocking Rhita Gawr over into the Otherworld, is ludicrous and anticlimactic. Hence, a combination of a bandwagon effect along with an inability to frighten middle and upper class voters may be enough to give the far left the majority it needs. Examples from Classical Literature I must have a coachman with a top-heavy wig, and horses so big that they frighten me. The enemy, he said, meant by this atrocity to frighten our sailors away from the sea. Then a bashing, as you call it, would not frighten you from committing a crime? The whooping crane followed, and gave him a bone from its wing for a war-whistle to frighten his enemies away. It was useful for casting stones into the ocean to frighten and drive the beluga into the nets set for that purpose. She could frighten a wildish cow and bail up anything that would stay in a yard with her. Shouting would frighten a burglar, or a rat, but would have no effect on a blackbeetle, or a ghost. But she knew that even the black knight would not frighten her kitchen-knave. He then said he should make known his crime, but that did not frighten Horne. As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony. I'll split the bodhi tree by lightning And frighten thee away with rumbling thunder. It is a bogie with which to frighten the people who demand reform in the currency of this country. As a bugaboo, the mere fact that you have money does not frighten me in the least, Mr. Morgan. This man said I must be operated on by a burning process, all of which was said to frighten me to duty. A three days' jaunt in a good boat isn't a thing to frighten people like us. Who art thou, false, double-tongued betrayer, That wouldst frighten and perplex me? I was going to turn away, not to frighten her, when the figure rose to its height and I recognized Miss bordereau's niece. Possibly the doctor's prediction of insanity had lain dormant in some brain cell from which it was now emerging to frighten me. At Mouthe in the jura mountains, there are said to be witch-hens that frighten eagles. He peered with keen eyes through the darkness and moved noiselessly forward, in order not to frighten the weeper. Show More Sentences She was a blue-eyed, jolly girl of the very best sort, but the way she cheeked my big brother used to frighten me. Poor mother, some great ignorant, clodhopping wench who will frighten her into a nervous fit. So men are hired to act as scarecrows and make noises to frighten the birds away. He wished he could frighten her, force her to grovel, but someone might try to stop him from doing it. Why not hang him in an orchard, like a wooden Priapus, to frighten the birds? He resorts to his tom-tom, by which he hopes to frighten away the fearful monster. It is not a small risk that will frighten me, if the reward is proportionate. The vibration and the deafening noise shook but did not frighten her. Sir, he had better raise this siege, to go and sit down before Edward if he wishes to frighten his enemy with words. They tried to frighten us by threatening to make away with you. I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them. He could not hope to frighten Sir Henry to death as he had done the old uncle with his bogie hound. The ganger's advice did not deter or frighten him in the least. And not a pike or arquebus to frighten them out of a rigid serenity. That he is a fable invented by the Inner Ring, a bogy to frighten us with. It is some old woman's bugaboo that you are haling out of a dark corner of your imagination to frighten yourself with. Colombo was a born fighter, and this news did not frighten him. The threat is addressed to the tonal, to frighten it into returning. He tried to frighten the ladies by telling them the structure was shaking. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise. Show More Sentences But no disfigurement or deformity appeared to frighten the little fellow. Pym will fail worse than Strafford if he thinks To frighten him. Another thing that used to frighten him was the hooting of the night owl. They've besot the house, and are a givin' lip to frighten folks. I meant to work this racket more and more, as time wore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. Frankly, some of the figures of the stout Landwehr men frighten us. McGREGOR hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds. My face shall never frighten people by being pale and wobegone. He is fond of disguising himself in some silly way and trying to frighten us. It would frighten any of us how children can be the victim of these faceless individuals. I don't want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. Have we found anything there to frighten even a physiologist? In piratical vessels, to frighten their prey with a semblance of valour. Would you try to frighten me with that whippersnapper thing? Then he remembered that it was no fun being angry unless he had some one to frighten and make miserable, and he rushed to his big gong and made it clatter as loud as he could. We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. She complains of difficulty breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing. I had some thoughts of asking you to take an airship along, but it might frighten the Indians, and I shall have to depend on them for guides, as well as for porters. Blair said he wanted to send a clear message to hoaxers that if they frighten the public and they waste time of overstretched emergency services, they will pay a severe price. Frighten me, floor me, then chortle with glee, And fly away fast from the gutter and me. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of frighten? Words that rhyme with frighten What is the past tense of frighten? What is the adverb for frighten? What is the adjective for frighten? What is the noun for frighten? Translations for frighten Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words frighted fright Frigga Frigg frigg frigate's frightened frightener frighteners frightening Frightening frighteningly 8-letter Words Starting With f fr fri frig frigh fright frighte