fearful

How To Use fearful In A Sentence

• A well-known waterman at Selby said that the river was in a fearful condition, and this had a good deal to do with the reported collisions taking place and damage done to boats on their voyages to and from the town.
• The *victim* of the defacement is the person who is intended to be fearful. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Shmulevich Case — Facts and New York Law, as I Can Best Figure Them Out:
• Another translation of the Bible uses the word cowardly instead of fearful. How to Overcome Fear
• Her children had been fearful of being taken into care if their parents were jailed.
• But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors.
• Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies. Les Miserables
• Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him. Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
• During the trial he became so fearful of assassination that he had steel plates sewn into his hat.
• He paused at the intersection, fearful that a hard leather boot was waiting for him no matter which way he ran.
• Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Burning Bright