How To Use Frightened In A Sentence

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)
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
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.
A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.
The child was frightened to death by the violent thunderstorm.

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It is one thing to play-act the gender role of frightened female in a movie theater where the horror is only simulated, but do I want to perform that same gender construction in real life?
Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
The Porto Rican boys and girls would be frightened out of their wits if Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas
In fact, I am so frightened, I fear I might just mess my pants!
Do you think the newly awakened lionhearted people are going to be frightened by an official hat? An Enemy of the People
It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
Slowly, as you make your way around this gorgeous setting, you go from frightened noob to savage hunter. The Sun
The fact is that our founders did not give us a nation frightened by the apparition of the Deity lurking about in our most central places.
Her response was immediate, she said: “I would like to train volunteer workers to go as outreach workers to help the needy - rough sleepers who are in the outlaying areas and who are too frightened to come into town to the soup kitchens for help”. Archive 2009-09-01
Well, when you stop being frightened of someone and then you stop pitying them, there's not really a lot left.
One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
The big one is frightened of a labradoodle. The Sun
Nearchus, however, went along the deck encouraging the men to remain firm and—in a move that must have struck the frightened sailors as sheer madness—ordered the helmsmen to turn their bows toward the whales in attack formation. Alexander the Great
Having only a confused, frightened sense of our one national leader, say "prorogue" and "G20" and frown, soundlessly. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
To tell true, we were always frightened of her though, milady. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
the frightened child cowered in the corner
Nothing frightened slave-dependent societies more than the prospect of widespread slave insurrections.
This book tells a fascinating and disturbing story that frightened me nearly to death.
I do it to get shriekingly frightened because that makes me very excited and produces all sorts of fun chemicals.
I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans. AlterNet
Everyone was frightened by the strange sequence of events.
Animal control officers managed to tranquilize the frightened creature and removed it.
I am not at all frightened by your threats, and I shall know how to deal with you if you persist in interfering with me or persecuting Kilmeny. Kilmeny of the Orchard
He is a desperate character, and in other lands might be dangerous; but he is safe enough here, for the bastinado is a terrible instrument of torture, and the man is now not only desperate in wrath, but is sometimes desperately frightened. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
They were frightened until our men gave them food, clothing, and assurances of safety.
She wore an expression that could either be read as apprehensive or frightened, depending.
She let out a frightened, high-pitched scream.
frightened stiff
I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
The spillcam, which BP made public only after the White House intervened, was the visual through-line of a media drama that fascinated and frightened the country for an entire summer, and enveloped many of us in its gravitational-like pull. Sean Smith: Ink Spill: Inside the Battle to Shape the News Coverage of Last Year's Oil Gusher
Largactil, and a few small shots of arecoline, but I'm frightened to give any more arecoline because there's a hell of an impaction in there and I don't want to rupture the bowel. Every living thing
She gasped for breath, eyes wide, frightened, and unseeing.
The fifteen ships set sail from Harfleur, financed by the French for the destruction of England, loaded with the worst men in Europe, drilled by Swiss instructors into some semblance of an army, commanded by Jasper, and led by Henry, more frightened than he has ever been before in his life. The Red Queen
It's totally irrational, but I'm frightened of mice.
As in, when frightened by the unanticipated attack of an allergenic cat I have been known to sneeze whilst leaping back in an unexpected fashion of my own! Auld Lang Syne, etc.
The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
My hard breathing was the only noise I could hear and when I looked up, my eyes brimming with frightened unshed tears, he was gone.
When she emerged - and she never took long, for she wasn't one to dilly-dally - I would step into the hall so that she would see me there waiting and wouldn't be frightened.
He was clearly frightened, perhaps delirious and possibly even unaware of what was happening to him.
He frightened me into staying silent.
Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
She wrapped her fingers hard around her sister's thin wrists so that Talitha's sleepy moaning turned into a frightened whimpering.
Voters will be reassured by Labour's record, and not frightened by talk of a house-price crash or third-term tax rises.
Chap it, an 'let us up to hell oot o' this," and the bottomer, no less frightened than he, tore at the bell, and jumping in himself just as the cage began slowly to ascend, clung to the bar, shivering with terror. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
This whole huge area was crawling with soldiers, and each wave of a heavy gun resulted in quick, frightened obedience from the people.
I had thought it should apay [gratify] her to know the same; but my words had the contrariwise effect, for she looked more frightened than afore. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
I tried not to hear the roar of flames overhead, or the frightened whinnies of fellow passengers, but the task was impossible.
Katie had never before heard her mother called Bessie, and had never seen anything approaching in size or colour to such a nose, consequently she ran away frightened. The Three Clerks
In Addis Ababa Tafari did his best to unite the frightened and divided chiefs and to persuade them to take effective action.
She spoke quietly to still the frightened child.
The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving, frightened and cold.
Yet thanks to the misapplication of science to religious faith, we remain literal-minded and spiritually immature, frightened of the silence and solitude in which the Ancient of Days, the Unnameable, might be experienced, though never understood. Karen Armstrong and the case for God
Frightened is also a pretty picture, but the composition is a little complex, and we can almost hear the noise when the artist cut the woodblock.
But it made her too ... not frightened -- she wasn't _frightened_ -- too _ashamed_ at the very thought of giving up, going back home empty-handed, blocked by a wizard who used cattle like these as his servants. Enchantment
We turned a corner and nearly walked right into a very unfrightened deer. Times, Sunday Times
Terrorist activity in the area has frightened most tourists away.
Smith was frightened enough to move fast - the sound of gunfire was an excellent accelerator.
They frightened him into telling them the secret.
But federal workers and private contractors not being paid are frightened about failing to meet mortgage and other financial obligations.
It brayed loudly again, and scampered, frightened, into the woods.
There was a new found concentration and direction in his voice which she understood but which also frightened and disturbed her.
Current ginger-mog is frightened of his own shadow and dead leaves, he plummets bum first out of trees and he plunges his paw into the bath only to be shocked that it is wet. How can you tell if your cat is smart? « knitnut.net
The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened.
In a confused sort of way -- as if I had dreamed it -- I remember that Nora came flying down the stairs in her dressing-gown and bare feet, and nurse hurrying behind her, both crying out in a frightened way, -- something like, "Oh, _lawkes_! what _have_ them boys been doin '?" and, "Oh, boys, _boys_! what _is_ the matter? We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
The chorus is so desperate and unhinged it should replace its namesake across the country; a frightened alarum to all that there's trouble around and it's far closer than you think.
All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again.
Behind her she heard the cries of frightened animals.
If there was no man in the house at the time these unwelcome visitors made their calls the female inmates were often greatly frightened, for the mendicants, if they were refused help, were not particular in the choice of their epithets.
We know how many river users are appalled at the way pilotage is being run and who are genuinely frightened to use the Humber without an experienced navigator.
Don't be frightened - it's only a story .
The man could modulate his voice into a great variety of tones, booming, hushed, lyrical, penitent, frightened.
She'd felt quite frightened and hadn't accepted the invitation.
she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me
A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.
Refusing to appear in public, being helicoptered into the Palace rather than risk the streets of London - anybody would think that the leader of the free world was frightened of his own shadow.
One of the things with nostalgia is the warm feeling you get from the things that both frightened and fascinated you as a kid.
I lost my daughter...' When he found his voice it was surprisingly normal, reedy, educated, still frightened. LOST CHILDREN
I lie awake in fear sometimes but now, in the daytime, I cannot think of anything to be frightened of at all.
Even if predators - cats, snakes, strange dogs, ants cannot gain access to the rabbitry, they may be close enough for the doe to detect their presence, and she may be frightened and kindle prematurely. Chapter 12
And then we passed into the yard and dairies, where the same benevolent worship had congregated fowl of strange and unheard-of breeds; and there was a little bonham; and above all, staring around, wonder-stricken and frightened, and with a gorgeous blue ribbon about her neck, was the prettiest little fawn in the world, its soft brown fur lifted by the warm wind and its eyes opened up in fear and wonder at its surroundings. My New Curate
Even when she reached her home again, and Mrs. Byrne followed her in, afraid of leaving the frightened woman alone lest she should "blab" the whole secret to the first person she met, -- even then Mrs. Cregan could not speak until she had gathered up the broken dishes and propped the broken chair against the wall, as frantically as if she were trying to conceal the evidence of a crime. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908
I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
On the contrary, he spoke like a frightened man, and accompanied almost every thing he said with a muscular effort at deglutition, which is one of the ordinary physical symptoms of fear. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
The masses have all sold out for a four bed detached house and a beamer on the drive, everybody ` s too frightened to say or do anything, for fear of losing the aforementioned lifestyle, and ending up on a sink estate, (thats whats Jeremy Kyle and Trish are there for, Your worst nightmare!) ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.
She was frightened to ride a bike.
The noise frightened the birds away.
Frightened but quick-witted, the shapely skin diver outmanoeuvres the silent predator and stays low among the coral and such, where the shark can't get her.
My bet is that the airline had just been temporarily frightened.
What frightened you? You've gone as white as a sheet.
I was too tired and frightened to find comfort in that familiar promise.
Inspector Kench set up a rope system and abseiled down to rescue the frightened animal, which, to his horror, then tried to escape.
He flushed Cochrane from the woods like a frightened covey of Mississippi quail.
I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man.
The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom
I was too tired and frightened to find comfort in that familiar promise.
She is terribly frightened, no doubt sensing that she may soon be badly hurt or harmed.
Charles says that it was some comfort to him to have frightened them, at least; but he was so candid to me as to own that from the beginning of this emeute he could not perceive in me the least expression of fear or disquietude whatever, and that, to be sure, he did not like. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Waverley
People are disconcerted, even frightened by that kind of lack of personal control.
At first the horse was frightened by the engine and was swimming round in circles, but they picked up my son and the sound of his voice calmed the horse as they shepherded it back to the beach.
He was inviolate in his trance, while she was exhausted, confused, and frightened. SACRAMENT
Denzel Washington does his thing in the Sinatra role, replacing Frank's shaken-but-confident characterization with an unsure and frightened soul.
The blast at the Sunubar Hotel sent frightened guests of the three-storey hotel running into the street, some barefooted, others with bloodstains on their clothes.
He was so frightened that he wet his pants.
The sudden noise frightened the birds to take wing.
The horse was badly frightened by the sudden noise.
See, I only know her as the author of my favourite book - I've never even read her other ones because I'm frightened they might be rubbish and so I wouldn't appreciate namedropper in the same way again : But after writing this post I thought I'd actually do some research and it seems like she's REALLY famous and I'm a moron for not knowing it sooner. sigh. Namedropper
Recovering his equanimity, with the ease and suavity which is usual with him in all company, Mr. Bennett was about to address the intruder, when he perceived that what he had taken for the gentleman in black was nothing more than a frightened orang-outang. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.
From the corner of my eye, I saw my frightened cousins obediently practicing their first brush strokes.
The superb disdain with which she met the project frightened these poor people, who were not mistaken in their fears that she was meditating what they called knight-errantry. An Historical Mystery
I was frightened because I had never seen him in such a rage before.
It begins with a Gypsy woman holding a kind of seance over a fat wad of supposedly cursed money for a rich, frightened woman. MERCHANT OF MURDER by Spencer Dean (Pocket 1960)
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud
We should be thanking Teina for doing what other MPs have been frightened to do - rebel against their leader.
A mother, who would not be named for fear of identifying her two young children, said she was frightened.
On my return from America I crept round Homer's apartment as if frightened my foot would indent the carpet too much and I would be blamed. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
Cancer is a taboo subject and people are frightened or embarrassed to talk openly about it.
Terrorist activity in the area has frightened most tourists away.
And those who are frightened of crossing the road are said to suffer from dromophobia. Times, Sunday Times
The endearment frightened her even more than the strange preoccupation on his face had done. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
He cannot make any promises, but at the same time he mustn't be seen to be frightened.
There's no need to be frightened - he's a very friendly dog.
Our groundsmen spotted several of them, and although they are more likely to be frightened of humans, we thought it was prudent to warn those who use the cemetery to watch where they walk.
I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show.
Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch. “I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
The occasional frightened servant scurried past every so often but the liegeman said nothing as they walked down the large hallway.
He continued to talk quietly and soothingly to the girl until her frightened grip on his arm was relaxed.
Do not be frightened of the pain factor - any irritation you feel decreases each time you epilate. The Sun
Thereupon I denounced him to the kaimakam, who had begun to be frightened at the responsibility he had assumed, and the man broke down and admitted that he might be mistaken, on which the kaimakam withdrew the charge. The Autobiography of a Journalist
Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash. Poor Folk
He was frightened and thinking furiously when in his headset he heard Underhill shout, “Fox!” — the code word for I have just fired a missile. The Last Ace
Meanwhile the captain and engineer of the launch had passed an unpleasant time; they had stayed aboard till the rolling of the boat drove them to the larger yacht; but seeing the schooner break her two chains and drift on to the reef, they became frightened and went ashore in the dinghey, and home along the beach. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
I was too tired and frightened to find comfort in that familiar promise.
Frank was frightened without knowing why; it was all so "unked," as he would have expressed it, and as he stared about with terrified eyes he seemed to see mysterious forms moving near. Our Frank and other stories
On the way we discovered fossils buried on the bank, frightened the geese, met a dog called Ronnie, picked tall bullrushes and got thoroughly lost in the undergrowth trying to find the path.
I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
To arrive at the point where the world can be truthfully named in its relation to God involves some grasp of the world as object of pointless, 'futureless' love; it must therefore involve levels of bewilderment, deep emotional confusion and frustration in the process, even a blurring of the boundaries between love and rejection (since we are frightened of replacing ordinary human affection with this radical and disabling love). Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'
The white-faced servants were huddling together in the hall, with the frightened butler wringing his hands in the doorway.
He wanted to go into the quaggi, the Singing-House, when the hunters gathered there for their mysteries, and the angekok, the sorcerer, frightened them into the most delightful fits after the lamps were put out, and you could hear the Spirit of the Reindeer stamping on the roof; and when a spear was thrust out into the open black night it came back covered with hot blood. The Second Jungle Book
He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls.
But it was the viva which frightened me to death.
She was terrified to realize we had seen her arms. She was more frightened by the fact that her secret was out than by the fact that she was a cutter in the first place.
There were ponies frightened out of their enclosures, cattle racing mad throughout the fields, not to mention the land itself, which was all cut-up.
I was very frightened and clinging on like mad.
She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
Little children who cry are frightened by the threat that the Owl will come to take them away; for the Owl cries, "Ho! ho! sorotto koka! sorotto koka!" which means, "Thou! must I enter slowly? Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
He is thus often able to adjust to hospital life and yet be frightened footless by the thought of having to leave. THE DICE MAN
I think we are genetically programmed to be fearful of BMW drivers in the same way that we are programmed to be just a little bit frightened of Scottish people in pub lavatories.
They had to watch their children having nightmares, being frightened of being alone and being scared of coming into an empty house.
Despite her father's reassurances, she was still frightened of the dark.
She changed her pace now to a run as the cry of a frightened horse broke the air.
The wind took the multitudinous sounds, -- the cries of frightened birds, the creaking trees, the snap of breaking boughs, the crash of falling giants, the rush of the rain, the drumming of the hail, -- enwound them with itself, and made the forest like a great shell held close to the ear. To Have and to Hold
I had been tearless, too frightened, and I had looked at her, and I had apologized.
They were dreadfully frightened, but at last one laid down his assagai and by degrees in about an hour approached my Kafir. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
The first thing that frightened me was the pale sallow color of my skin, which I originally thought was from my extreme and deathly loss of blood.
She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
Although Thomas could be very mellow, she was still frightened of how he might react to this.
She was frightened by the height of the cliff.
He was frightened at the sight of the dog.
They grow up in confusion and bewilderment as children, then often pass into denial as young adults and sometimes remain frightened even into old age.
his fulminations frightened the horses
She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
He was a tall, thin, gangling boy, with eyes that shone like ice, and the travellers were frightened by his strangeness. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Christmas Fable
Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and while wheeling a "frightened and humiliated" Dougherty out of the store, he passed out.
Marina is a new Anne Frank, one of 80,000 frightened children caught in an ugly, vicious siege.
This frightened the milkmaid and the pastor.
Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch. “I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
I felt frightened, physically frightened.
One elderly woman who suffers from angina and is too frightened to be identified, said her quality of life is suffering as a result of the gang's actions.
It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room.
People were quite frightened, because he was having what was described as a tracheal problem. CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2005
He made a frightened noise a little like the miaow of a cat.
Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.
He saw only the necessary stages that had led to it, and to him they seemed natural; but to Adams, still living in the atmosphere of Palmerston and John Russell, the sudden appearance of Germany as the grizzly terror which, in twenty years effected what Adamses had tried for two hundred in vain, frightened England into Americas arms, seemed as melodramatic as any plot of Napoleon the Great. Indian Summer (1898–1899)
How do we detect the minority of patients who really would be frightened?
“Monna Paula was frightened,” answered Margaret, “and did not know how to set about the errand, for you know she scarce ever goes out of doors — and so — and so — I agreed to go with her to give her courage; and, for the dress, I am sure you remember I wore it at a Christmas mumming, and you thought it not unbeseeming.” The Fortunes of Nigel
They sat on their civilised behinds and laughed as the frightened face of the woman they'd nicknamed The Pig stared from their screens like a rabbit caught in headlights.
In the past six months have you ever had a spell or an attack when you suddenly felt frightened, anxious, or very uneasy?
It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death!
Beryl looks frightened, her face drawn and colorless.
People who lived here carried on pretty much as normal, but outsiders were frightened off.
Ruha let her hand drop to her jambiya, both angered by the fool's lechery and frightened she would have to slay him to save her honor. The Veiled Dragon
The entreaty was the entreaty of a child, a frightened, bewildered child. The Iron Woman
The scenario was made so ghastly and obtrusive that I guess most women and kids would be too frightened to try eating out at the prison-like eatery.
There were no carriages, and grass had sprung high in the streets; the houses had a desolate look; most of the shutters were closed; and there was a ghast and frightened stare in the persons I met, very different from the usual business-like demeanour of the Londoners. The Last Man
They teach "aversive" training methods, such as pinning the dog to the ground, jerking the dog on the leash, using shock collars, and physically forcing frightened dogs into situations they are afraid of until they shut down. Tom Matlack: Are You An "Alpha" Male?
This is the true war on terror humans are born into—the war between frightened but reasoning animals and the inexplainable terrors of nature, the jungle from which we animals came. Monkeys Love Black Gold
But Olivia was amazed and frightened by the strength of Mrs. Saunders' reaction.
She's perky, flighty and frightened to death of her daughter and what she might really think.
Instead of firebombing the apartment and surrounding forest like I would have done during my violent years, I instead turned the other cheek and ran away like a frightened schoolgirl.
One gayal was shot dead and the rest were too frightened to visit nearby communes where they often drink water.

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