frighten

How To Use frighten 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.
• 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.
• Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
• Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all.
• Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.