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52 example sentences for TERRIFIC, such as:

1. Everybody there was having a terrific time.
2. He was really terrific when I was in trouble.
3. It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight.
4. He had a terrific sense of humour and could be very amusing.
5. No one seemed to be wrestling with such a terrific personal problem.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRIFIC
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terrific
 a.  causing extreme terror; very great; extraordinarily good
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  That terrific scandal concerning the Charleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
3  Emboldened by this, the Captain reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he belonged.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5  It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
6  With a terrific snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7  This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their stationary fright.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
8  Those dogs, she said, went down into the hole after the badger and killed him there in a terrific struggle underground; you could hear the barks and yelps outside.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
9  The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  His body, which was nearly naked, presented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in intermingled colors of white and black.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  Death was everywhere, and in his most terrific and disgusting aspects.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
12  Their plaintive and terrific cry, which was intended to represent equally the wailings of the dead and the triumph to the victors, had entirely ceased.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
13  The spectacle now became wildly terrific; the fierce-looking and menacing visages of the chiefs receiving additional power from the appalling strains in which they mingled their guttural tones.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
14  The latest straggler had returned from his fell employment, only to strip himself of the terrific emblems of his bloody calling, and to join in the lamentations of his countrymen, as a stricken people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
15  No one seemed to be wrestling with such a terrific personal problem.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  He was really terrific when I was in trouble.
2  Yeah, they hired a magician to come and do magic and he was really terrific.
3  Everybody there was having a terrific time.
4  He had a terrific sense of humour and could be very amusing.
5  There is a great sense of occasion and a terrific standard of musicianship.