fright

How To Use fright In A Sentence

• You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
• On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
• The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
• And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
• Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
• Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
• I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow. Arabian nights. English
• The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
• They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.