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.

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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.
By combining state-of-the-art computer animation with live-action landscapes, you'll marvel as these fearsome creatures roar to life!
She developed an unorthodox swing, but her putting ability and powerful striking of the ball made her a fearsome opponent.
They convey the awful immediacy and sheer terror of modern combat, with its fearsome gizmos and consequently fearful casualties. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed to express a mixture of horror and the most fearsome threat. Times, Sunday Times
This was the most she could pull off—the smallness of the crime, the minuteness of the act itself—and yet, so fearsome the punishment.
Like Marshall, Lee is a different character out on the pitch where he hurls down his thunderbolts with a fearsome accuracy and hostility to take a wicket every 32 balls, one of the best strike rates ever.
They were followed by the elite regiment of the von Reusch or Black Hussars HR5, decked out in their fearsome all black uniforms and mirliton hats bearing the dreaded death's head on the front of the cap. Archive 2008-01-01
He had defeated giants, trolls, fearsome dragons with his skill and his Holy Sword.
That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
We took the lawnmower to the fixit man, as it made a fearsome noise when I started it.
The resulting animal bore a close physical resemblance to its prehistoric ancestor with a temper to match its fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
A showbiz reporter of the old school, he used to possess fearsome power and ‘You'll never play this town again’ was no idle threat.
The fearsome, spotted creature was a kitten in his hands and ruthless to anyone else that dared to touch her.
A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish.
They are a wounded animal at the moment and, when animals are wounded, they can turn into fearsome predators. The Sun
Fides in this sense was a fearsome obligation, having precious little to do with modern interiorized notions of religious belief. The Times Literary Supplement
Every P-40 has a unique set of teeth and those teeth make or break the fearsome look which sets this fighter apart.
His ability to evade capture has added to his fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
His fearsome set brought the curtain down on a fantastic final day, with some of the major highlights away from the main stage.
For employees whose entire careers have played out within the shelter of one functional silo, this is a fearsome prospect.
DAMN WHAT A SHAME IT IS SINCE THAT DAY, when the leader of hate to our white house came, when our collective soul was taught to blame, or better up, that to slain is the truest and sweetest game, or how we all now proudly do proclaim … Oh how we love to kill in the name of the great and fearsome U.S.A. Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
The mysterious noise-rock quartet make jagged, fearsome monoliths of fuzz and distortion that terrorize with ear-bleeding volume and, once in a very rare while, flirt with hummability.
Its fearsome appearance struck terror into their hearts.
But the man with the fearsome reputation dissolved into tears when he learned his best friend had committed suicide. The Sun
In the national polls, with all the fearsome talk by the Obama campaign about Senator Clinton's "high negatives" and being a "polarizer" the latest Gallup tracking poll, again as of Saturday night, April 19, shows Senator Clinton to be running dead even with Senator McCain -- actcuall plus 1% or 46%-45% -- as is Senator Obama (who is dead even at 45%-45%). Lanny Davis: Latest Gallup National Democratic Tracking Poll: Obama-Clinton Now in Dead Heat -- Will the Pundits and Media Analyze Why?
We meet the Indian rhino, a fearsome ass called the kiang, a yak. BrothersJudd Blog
The name's the same but the fearsome reputation has taken a battering.
At any moment you half expect a fearsome creature to stomp out of the swamp and ferns. Times, Sunday Times
A fittingly fearsome vessel for its deadly pilot, the Sith Infiltrator is the personal starship of Darth Maul, Dark Lord of the Sith.
He might not be a big, fearsome speedster - but he consistently swings the ball at a nifty pace. The Sun
Highlights of the royal collection include the painted miniatures, costumes and fearsome weapons.
Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions.
Which was all we could do for the next four days, except watch a mechanic struggle to get Matilda back on the road for the most fearsome stretch yet: the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.
Gangs of New York leaves the viewer drunk and euphoric on the sight of so much blood, like the Five Points crowds that flock to the dog baiting matches or cheer Bill on as he performs his ‘fearsome acts’.
Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning.
There are also sights that feel entirely new: a sloth swimming lazily in a tropical blue sea, or young marine iguanas pursued by fearsome racer snakes. Times, Sunday Times
The once young manservant of our house recognized me immediately, for I had spent hours in his room listening to stories of a fearsome dacoit.
This man had the most fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Book a table for beef wellington or just stop by for a fearsome martini. Times, Sunday Times
He has a fearsome reputation as a fighter.
In the meantime they are spending their days playing table tennis and pool and consuming fearsome quantities of beer.
Nationalistic thugs who double as acrobats from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia, The Fearsome Foot-Fighters are masters of savate, a French form of kickboxing.
I built a fearsome reputation through stickling over trivialities, and set the seal on it by publicly flogging a colonel (because one of his men was late for roll-call) at the first of the great fortnightly reviews which the Queen and court attended. Flashman's Lady
This harsh image, fearsome and ugly to mortals, is seen as beautiful to the gods.
ROBERT GILDEA, Oxford University's fearsomely erudite professor of modern history, has chosen a large canvas—and a wonderful title.
When the wind blows, it can be a fearsome proposition, yet, like all links, it is vulnerable when the weather is calm and placid.
The fearsome creatures prove there's more to them than a mouthful of sharp teeth as their complex social lives are probed. The Sun
His only chance is to play his brutish opponent like a skilled matador plays a fearsome bull.
The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family. The Seattle Times
He has climbed the fearsome Matterhorn and is quietly confident that the trip to France in July will end in success.
It is very true, said the blind man, that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants I whiles make a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds. Wandering Willie’s Tale
When Frank was at his creative peak in the mid-fifties, a young Elvis hit with the hammer that was Rock & Roll, knocking Sinatra down several pegs as popular music upheaved huge and fearsome stalagmites around him. Archive 2009-08-01
They convey the awful immediacy and sheer terror of modern combat, with its fearsome gizmos and consequently fearful casualties. Times, Sunday Times
The rottweiler has earned a fearsome reputation as extremely loyal and as a menacing guard dog. Times, Sunday Times
These fields are a fearsome sight. Times, Sunday Times
So hats off to the band for going ahead with the film - particularly as they come across not as the fearsome rock warriors of popular image but a bunch of self-regarding, touchy-feely sissies.
That is further proof the team lacks a fearsome defender… The coaching staff appears to overthink situations.
And it is certain that the country has some fearsome chemical and biological weapons in its armoury.
Apart from being a fearsome cyborg and Sith Lord who serves at the right hand of Emperor Palpatine Darth is a major bad guy in a HUGE block buster Star Wars trilogy. Mask Vader | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Later that day, the fearsome fivesome was back in the car, heading towards Manitoba.
An explosion in drug-related murders and drive-by shootings made national news and gave the area a fearsome reputation.
We fell on each other like old chums - he didn't know me well, you see, but mostly by my fearsome reputation; he was one of your play-up-and-fear-God paladins, full of zeal and athirst for glory, was John, and said his prayers and didn't drink and thought women were either nuns or mothers. Fiancée
At a certain lodge in East Africa for example, a little girl was seen leaning out of a window, trying to touch a giant forest hog, a large wild pig the size of a donkey, with a reputation of ripping hunters and their dogs with fearsome tusks.
Although most marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas are herbivores, Thylacoleo was something completely different—a fearsome predator with pincer-like front teeth and a slashing front claw on its thumb. Archive 2008-03-01
Casey casts a baleful eye on the author's camera, striking his most fearsome pose.
That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes. Times, Sunday Times
Cycling is a grueling sport that has witnessed many fearsome, hard-faced champions. Schleck Brothers Serve Cold Revenge
The swamps are infested with poisonous snakes and fearsome insects with bites so strong they will either kill a man or drive him mad.
Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control.
It looks like a new differentiation in the fearsome-internet collection because now 'old' new media corps are trustworthy, as opposed to the runaway wild-fire gossip of Twitter with its 'decontextualised misinformation'. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Microblogging terror: Twitter threats and an arrest
Despite their fearsome size and appearance, cassowaries are solitary birds that are rarely seen in the wild.
But the man with the fearsome reputation dissolved into tears when he learned his best friend had committed suicide. The Sun
Next thing you know, they're in the Lost Valley of Lost Dinosaurs, where they find the fearsome Gwangi-an allosaur, apparently, that they capture for exhibition (like they could really keep it in that wooden cage). Cowboy 'n' Dinosaurs
Beside me she sits mute and motionless as chiseled stone, the beautiful fearsome stranger who has saved and destroyed me in the space of hours.
Despite the beautiful alignment of the main line out of London there are some fearsome grades on most lines elsewhere on the network, and visiting Pacifics have often been in bad trouble on these sections.
The Druids also had a fearsome reputation as magicians. Phoenix From the Flame
The offending work was a piece from Condo's suite of Kanye portraits in which a fearsome Kanye, pictured naked, sits straddled by a nude, phoenixlike, winged woman-creature. A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed
Each account of him during such conversations adds more details, making him more fearsome.
Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.
At Prime Minister's questions, Mr Miliband was accompanied by a fearsome animal with short legs, powerful shoulders and a bulging neck, which we had no hesitation in identifying as a Rottweiler called Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Ferik's free hands flew into action, one grabbing his hair and wrenching his face back to hers, the other giving him a fearsome blow to his nose.
The Chamber Symphony No. 2, begun in 1906 and completed in 1939, belies its fearsome reputation.
Tiny insects become fearsome monsters. The Sun
Yet his stern, fearsome presence creates the perfect penetrable entity, a persona ripe for revelations to bounce off of and reflect on.
Two-dozen youngsters, all under seven, turned up on Tuesday to revel in the fearsome delights.
At the end, Zhang's king has been crushed under the weight of his own laws, facing a fearsome, unison chorus of thousands of warriors calling for blood.
She finally married the fearsome seven-footer with whom she spoke pidgin German interlarded with pidgin Russian. Cranberry Sauce
But not just any ship, it needed to be fast enough to sail the seas undetected and yet fearsome enough to do justice to my stalwart piratical persona.
That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes. Times, Sunday Times
Despite their fearsome size, these magnificent birds survive mainly on carrion and hunting small mammals like mice.
But trainers need jockeys who can compete on handicaps at weights considerably less than 9st, and it is a fearsome task to comply, even for fit athletes.
A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars.
It was easier to throw increasingly illiberal sound bites at a shadowy and fearsome enemy. Times, Sunday Times
Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
The swamps are infested with poisonous snakes and fearsome insects with bites so strong they will either kill a man or drive him mad.
Outfielder Joe Medwick, another Hall of Famer who played for the Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, was never quite as fearsome a hitter after being beaned in 1940.
They did their work well and acquired the fearsome reputation of brutality and violence.
A fearsome sight for England players with tiring legs. Times, Sunday Times
Forget Jaws, this is the real world of the fearsome predator. The Sun
“In 1928, the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was analyzing a fearsome bacteria in his lab,” the dreamseller said. Dreamseller: The Calling
The presenter is renowned as one of our most fearsome interviewers. The Sun
Even a fearsome spectacled caiman is unable to escape an anaconda's fatal embrace.
A fearsome Tibetan mastiff stands guard outside a dwelling while a smaller dog is ready to sound the alarm indoors if anyone is clever enough or lucky enough to slip past the mastiff.
New York neighbors, we are told, were once startled by the "fearsome sounds" of Mitchell and her lover of the time, the painter Michael Goldberg, "trying to kill each other," while friends were astonished "when she turned up . . . with bruises and black eyes half-concealed by sunglasses. A Fiercely Gifted Artist
TWENTY-THREE Revelations The unWitted often tell fearsome tales of Witted ones who take on the forms of animals for nefarious reasons. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
As a result, there was obvious capital to be made from exhibiting mastery over such fearsome creatures. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
Some people are getting heavy into downers - Reds, Quaaludes, Valiums - and others are gobbling speed, booze, Maalox and other strange medications with fearsome regularity.
Only one man has the muscular good looks and personal courage to stand up to these fearsome freaks of nature.
His ability to evade capture has added to his fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
The wolf fish, which, despite its fearsome appearance, does not eat other fish, only molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms. This photo was a runner-up by Jim Greenfield.
But the man with the fearsome reputation dissolved into tears when he learned his best friend had committed suicide. The Sun
The battlefield was a fearsome sight.
Despite his slightly bumpkinish exterior, Li is actually a fearsome fighter with his Staff.
I garizonae into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
She was short, with big curly brown hair and a little bald husband, and she was always cheery and happy and had an improbably posh accent and as with most such people a fearsome temper that you really didn't want to provoke.
Judge Raymond Bennett said it was difficult to imagine anything more fearsome than seeing somebody on your window sill at 2am.
Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies.
His enemies are not the fearsome ape Donkey Kong or King Bowser the dragon - though they can be as deadly.
For an inning or two, he could be a fearsome opponent, but he had his ups and downs.
But the man with the fearsome reputation dissolved into tears when he learned his best friend had committed suicide. The Sun
This was the most she could pull off - the smallness of the crime, the minuteness of the act itself - and yet, so fearsome the punishment.
Then, having overcome this fearsome physical handicap on race day, Mansell almost knocked himself out when he stood up at the wrong moment and struck his head on an iron girder as the jeep bringing the winner from parc ferm drove through an entry in the pit buildings. Chequered Conflict
Lara believes herself bound to the fearsome voudon personality known as "Marinette. An Interview with Robert Stone
Their eyes have turned a most fearsome crimson colour, and a feeling of malice is apparent in their company.
He has a fearsome reputation as a fighter.
His ability to evade capture has added to his fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
The first aircraft is named School-Boy Rowe while the second has fearsome shark teeth adorning its cowls.
Devastating or plundering land without sacking a city was a regular tactic at the time and one that, as long as people had a secure place of retreat, was not particularly fearsome.
There must be something else inside that fearsome figure, to have won such love and devotion.
Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus.
When the wind blows, it can be a fearsome proposition, yet, like all links, it is vulnerable when the weather is calm and placid.
To them he must have been a fearsome sight, disheveled with ragged clothes and uncombed greasy hair.
Long ago it must have seemed a fearsome predator. Times, Sunday Times
I am surprised that the fellow on the subway worked up the gumption to pitch on his book, despite your broadsword and fearsome skull-helmet. Stuff We Did This Weekend; Or, Our Life Is Queries
Ahrendts comes with a slightly fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom.
It was a reasonably large toadfish, as far as toadfish go, and it was ugly and fearsome and it growled. A (true) fish story
IT must have been a fearsome sight. Times, Sunday Times
To frighten his enemies, he began to wear a fearsome mask when he went into battle.
It's fearsome because it's so unforgiving and nighttime is so dark in the bush it's like you have never seen. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kaaron Warren
A fine serve and improving volleys, added to his agility and speed about the court, make him a fearsome opponent. ITF World of Tennis
These covenants are turned skeletons, fearsome and affrighting, and former respect to them is like gradually to dwine away under a consumption. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
The Churchill Crocodile wields a 6 Pounder gun and a fearsome flame projector.
To frighten his enemies, he began to wear a fearsome mask when he went into battle.
They convey the awful immediacy and sheer terror of modern combat, with its fearsome gizmos and consequently fearful casualties. Times, Sunday Times
Liverpool were also without Steven Gerrard and although Jimmy Traore looked raw and unseasoned - he gave away the free kick which Harte delivered to Kewell - he was kept on message by Sammy Hyypia who was fearsomely flawless.
I had been diving on coral reefs in fearsome currents, uninsured. Times, Sunday Times
It was easier to throw increasingly illiberal sound bites at a shadowy and fearsome enemy. Times, Sunday Times
The larvae of the emperor dragonfly are themselves voracious predators, armed with fearsome mouthparts known as a 'mask'.
The heavy rain which had showered the course for 36 hours finally relented for the third round and left the fearsome Bethpage Black course more receptive to below-par scoring.
Its fearsome appearance struck terror into their hearts.
Was it reasonable to have expected the council to have foreseen such fearsome weather and legislated for it?
As she has grown into an adolescent, she has developed a fearsome temper.
Beside me she sits mute and motionless as chiseled stone, the beautiful fearsome stranger who has saved and destroyed me in the space of hours.
The couple say they have spent thousands of hours training the animals because of wolves' fearsome nature. Times, Sunday Times
She has also been a fearsome opponent and a merciless landlord but it is all a game to her.
They become old friends, not fearsome monsters. Times, Sunday Times
The couple say they have spent thousands of hours training the animals because of wolves' fearsome nature. Times, Sunday Times
For most of his career, the 69-year-old stage and TV actor has specialised in playing older character parts - more often than not the kind of fearsomely whiskered old coves who look like they'd be pretty handy with a blunderbuss.
You didn't question this because they were so fearsome and merciless, and all they wanted to do was conquer and kill.
For this reason it seems possible that the somewhat fearsome reputation of Ulysses, the popular idea of its lofty unreadability, owes as much to its erratic attention to image as to the more widely famous difficulty of its language.
Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea.
In Inter's first team the midfielder established a fearsome partnership with Pablo Guiñazú, a goateed, shaven-headed Argentinian whose nomadic career has spanned five countries. Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been'
It was a fearsome monster about 7ft long. Times, Sunday Times
Even with the fearsome foursome, we didn't win any games.
The stroppiest, most talented and fearsomely hedonistic Banana had left to marry the beardy one from the Eurythmics, and the assumption was that she'd hung up her dungarees to become a Rock Wife. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
But a new look at the fossil suggests that great whites are more closely related to the less fearsome and smaller mako shark, which belonged to a genus that still exists today.
What strange and fearsome newfangled world is this?
The bosses of the south porch are especially noteworthy: both are fearsome grotesques with toothed mouths.
Under our world exists a chaotic, quarrelsome and crowded underground society of fearsome but stupid goblins, officious gnomes, sprites, technically adept centaurs and other creatures.
This group of lawyers is as renowned for fearsome intellect as it is for hard-line conservative politics.
For the fact that it was this said thirty-first cousin, Mr. d'Urberville, who had fallen in love with her, a gentleman not altogether local, whose reputation as a reckless gallant and heart-breaker was beginning to spread beyond the immediate boundaries of Trantridge, lent Tess's supposed position, by its fearsomeness, a far higher fascination than it would have exercised if unhazardous. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth.
At first sight the menu was fearsomely unexciting.
All Date units have a charge bonus, and their fearsome no-dachi samurai, with two-handed swords, are cheap to recruit and maintain.
Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules the seas.
That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes. Times, Sunday Times
_A fearsome jinnee of monstrous stature appeared_, Salahuddin remembered. The Satanic Verses
Like you, we've had some fearsome arguments about colour schemes, carpets and curtains.
You darkly feathered and fearsome creatures of the wind! The Sun
Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. Rational Review
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The tenor who sings Arturo has a fearsome vibrato.
Farming is the major industry in the area, and the challenge of reaping a harvest from this soil is a fearsome one.
DAMN WHAT A SHAME IT IS SINCE THAT DAY, when the leader of hate to our white house came, when our collective soul was taught to blame, or better up, that to slain is the truest and sweetest game, or how we all now proudly do proclaimâ€ ¦ Oh how we love to kill in the name of the great and fearsome U.S.A. Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
And, of course, there was our defensive line, the one that struck such terror into opponents that it became known as ‘the Fearsome Foursome’.
His ability to evade capture has added to his fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times

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