FEARFUL in a Sentence

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1. He clasped my arm with fear.
2. The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
3. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
4. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.
5. It is only fear first in the world that made gods.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEARFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fearful
 a.  extremely distressing
 a.  lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She looked furtively around her, as the treacherous, blasphemous thoughts rushed through her mind, fearful that someone might find them written clearly upon her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  When Scarlett first began secretly reading these letters, she had been so stricken of conscience and so fearful of discovery she could hardly open the envelopes for trembling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Once, Scarlett, in desperation, started to ride out herself to search for food, but the hysterical outbursts of the whole family fearful of the Yankees made her abandon the plan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  She was bitterly cold and hungry and so fearful of what lurked in the mists about her that she tried to scream and could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  He said nothing of leaving Tara, and Scarlett was careful not to question him, fearful that he might leave them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  There was something about this immobile man which frightened her, so that now the thought of marrying him was fearful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Now, the eyes which had been fearful and desperate were hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  In this wild and fearful time, Scarlett was frightened--frightened but determined, and she still made her rounds alone, with Frank's pistol tucked in the upholstery of the buggy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Now that she thought about it, they hadn't made her particularly happy, though they made her less harried, less fearful of the morrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
10  But she did not speak the words, fearful of breaking the spell that lay between them, fearful that his mind would close against her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
11  Even as she leaned from the window there was a fearful sound of splintering wood, a hoarse cry from Rhett, a melee of blue velvet and flying hooves on the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
12  He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
13  To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  It turned out that the Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board, and that Mayhew, her captain, was fearful of infecting the Pequod's company.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
15  And the whale soon ceasing to sound, for some time they remained in that attitude, fearful of expending more line, though the position was a little ticklish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The study showed a deep fear among the elderly of being abandoned to the care of strangers.
17  We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
18  He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.
19  He clasped my arm with fear.
20  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
21  There's been much fear that the United Nations peacekeepers would be under attack in a situation like that.
22  Behind the fear of an ideal you, you create the fear, you can beat him.
23  The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.
24  The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
25  The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
26  When we have gold we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger.
27  I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.
28  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
29  It is only fear first in the world that made gods.
30  Her parents fear that, living in this neighbourhood, she might stray into the wrong company.