fearsome

How To Use fearsome In A Sentence

• They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
• She is fearsome and patrician, with steely grey hair and rock-solid ideals. Times, Sunday Times
• The current regime of the president rests upon a fearsome security apparatus.
• He could hardly have picked a more fearsome opponent. Times, Sunday Times
• He had developed a fearsome reputation for intimidating people.
• For centuries it has been inhabited by tribespeople - Afridis, Waziris, Baluchis and many more - each boasting to be more fearsome than the others.
• The rottweiler has earned a fearsome reputation as extremely loyal and as a menacing guard dog. Times, Sunday Times
• Volcanoes erupt under glaciers, causing gigantic floods that make the island a fearsomely dangerous place for human colonization.
• Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
• It is a fearsomely complicated one, and I would never dream of showing it in a non-technical book about science if my intention was to be instructive.