FRIGHTENING in a Sentence

Learn FRIGHTENING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

243 example sentences for FRIGHTENING, such as:

1. It sort of frightens me.
2. An empty purse frightens many friends.
3. The prospect of war really frightens me.
4. He was frightened at the sight of the dog.
5. A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIGHTENING
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frightening
 a.  inspiring with fear; causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her eyes were on the carpet and, though she seemed overcome with some frightening emotion, she seemed shyly happy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  By late afternoon the first news came, but it was uncertain, contradictory, frightening, brought as it was by men wounded in the early hours of the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  At her touch he turned to her, his eyes gleaming with a light as frightening as the fire.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The red glow in the sky was fading now and the road became so dark, so frightening, Scarlett would have welcomed words, any words from him, even jeering, insulting words, words that cut.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  A warm tide of feeling, bewildering, frightening, swept over her, carrying out of her mind the time and place and circumstances.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  "Look at mine," answered Scarlett with a frightening smile as she pushed blistered and calloused palms toward her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  She had not met his eyes once that evening and the hard bright gaiety with which she had treated him was frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  There was about his movements the same pagan freedom and leashed power Scarlett had noted that night Atlanta fell, something sinister and a little frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  So Ashley was mixed up in this frightening puzzle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  If life had been insecure and frightening before this, it was doubly so now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  She was bursting to relate it in detail, so she could ease her own fright by frightening the others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  But there lay upon her conscience another matter that was heavier and more frightening even than causing his death--a matter which had never troubled her until she looked upon his coffined face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  She opened her eyes and saw that the frightening glow had gone from his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  From this she progressed to wakening in the late night hours, screaming with terror, frightening the other two children and alarming the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  He was frightened at the sight of the dog.
17  She was frightened to death when she saw her small daughter on the edge of the cliff.
18  A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.
19  Investment companies have been frightened off by fear of losing money.
20  A sharp metallic note coming from the outside frightened me.
21  She crouched in the dark, too frightened to reveal herself.
22  I was frightened when I saw the nasty gash in her arm.
23  She was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
24  When the two young men wanted to accost me, I was frightened because I thought they were going to attack me.
25  And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.
26  She was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that her baby might be hungry.
27  Yet school, which should have been a refuge, is also treacherous terrain for Matilda; its headmistress, is formidable, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils.
28  It sort of frightens me.
29  An empty purse frightens many friends.
30  The prospect of war really frightens me.