How To Use Frightening 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.
The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
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

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
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. The House on Fortune Street: Summary and book reviews of The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey.
It adds an extra layer of authenticity to an already frighteningly realistic film.
May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour.
I'm not entirely sure that if I was in a frightening situation, that I would like Spiderman to come zinging to my rescue.
While we know that obesity is also a national concern, it is frightening to acknowledge the degree to which girls and women are discontent with the body they have, want a body that is unattainably thin for 98 percent of natural body shapes, are angry at their body imperfections, and are obsessed with fixing their shape. Beth Weinstock: Gloria Steinem Is Alive and Well, Reminding Us 'That Perfect Is Boring' and 'Beauty Is Irregular'
Crowds, especially crowds that become hunting packs are very frightening.
It was rather frightening to think how easily men could do what they wanted, simply because of their superior physical strength.
Febrile convulsions can be frightening for parents, especially as they look like epileptic fits.
Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great economic tragedy now unfolding, they do unwittingly disclose some frightening facts.
The prospect of students saddling themselves with enormous debts to pay their course fees and their maintenance is a frightening one.
The seasons, frighteningly unfamiliar to your average cook, are second nature to Susan and Margaret.
The electrical hookups look frightening, but the luz is very good; we run through an external surge protector and if the corriente is too low or too high or polarity reversed, it is no go. Huasteca Potosina
She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick.
The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
What we discovered was truly frightening and made us question our own existence in this strange, strange world.
Flying in an airplane can be a frightening prospect for some people.
She does look warm and pretty next to pasty Edward, but his palid complexion is just frightening here. the previous poster was much more appealling, alluring, and more likely for viewers to actually ditch their old movies and take this one. ilovethecullens (10/9/2008 5: 19: 17 PM) i dont really like it, they could've done a lot better Final ‘Twilight’ Poster Hits Net. What Do You Think? » MTV Movies Blog
Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
At what point does indecision, does the inability to act at all, become legitimately frightening?
More than that, though, it is a mysterious, numinous presence that inhabits it, both attractive and frightening, grand and gentle, like the spirit of the sea itself, and the peoples that live by and with it.
The rapist who wins women's trust and then abuses them is a more sophisticated, devious and frightening operator.
Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
The number of youngsters involved in crime is frightening.
I number that crash among the most frightening experiences of my life.
No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints.
A flashback is a sudden, vivid memory of a bad trip and can be very frightening, sometimes causing mental health problems.
I understand all the hospitals and clinics were jam-packed for a day or 2 when the frightening news came out, but that was very temporary. Have the economy and swine flu affected you?
Of all the frightening specters looming above us in the brave new world of Bush II - and there are many to choose from - I think the scariest is the privatization of Social Security. The scariest thing
Exposed to the light, the monk's inner demons and the phantasms of his dreams would no longer seem quite as frightening or threatening.
This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
I think: I'll have bushes on the left-hand side where she's walking because that's more frightening than the open fields, and then on the right I'm going to have some of those distorted trees you get in East Anglia, distorted by the winds – some of them look like witches, waving witches' arms; very sinister. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft
The press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it’s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start). 2009 April 23 | Serendipity
It's a very frightening place that has been designed to have no natural light.
But to me the most frightening aspect of the whole disaster was that the clamorous Tasman Sea went suddenly quiet - eerily so - and though I waited for its comforting roar to resume, I can't remember ever hearing it so noisy again.
He wanted to be known as madder than Michael, as even more frightening. Maura's Game
In respect of our existing building stock, which produces a frightening proportion of carbon emissions, we can only hope that retrofit makes economic as well as environmental sense.
Suddenly they burst apart, and a frighteningly large steel staff fell to the ground.
Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
This demands a solution to the frightening statistics on infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education, analphabetism, wages insufficient to sustain life. Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Acceptance and Nobel Lecture
The country is frighteningly close to possessing nuclear weapons.
This is extremely frightening for elderly people.
Within 18 months, he had fallen in love with a pretty, quick-witted copygirl, Barbara Stone, and after a terrifying, if occasionally thrilling, baptism of snootiness by her family — New Year’s at Arturo Toscanini’s house, a frightening experience with a finger bowl — he married her. The Gelb Family
American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous. Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
In triumph, he picks people up, hugs them, shouts with glee; in defeat, his face carries a frightening scowl and the pearly teeth disappear from view.
Console users take gaming seriously, and their brand loyalty is frightening.
Flint, which is the title of the book as well as the surname of Eddy's frighteningly driven heroine, is a cross-genre novel.
He has been campaigning in the junior flyweight, flyweight and junior bantamweight divisions, destroying every opponent with frightening aplomb.
On the other, I find it somewhat disenchanting that something so frightening and sacrosanct can be achieved and nullified by such relatively simple means. Overlooked Movie Monday: Near Dark » Scene-Stealers
Of its many versions, there's one with a deeply contoured seat that looks frightening but is the most comfortable thing I've ever sat on.
Is there really a very frightening and powerful structure behind this man, or not?
Seen from the student's viewpoint, the oral exam can be frightening.
It was frightening to get a dozen screaming phone calls a day, and nothing I could say made any difference.
Stewart's pained expression was frightening testament to the quality and precision of Hatton's work.
The alpha and the omega for this man who's worked to become the most despised, the most frightening artist in music.
Alone in rural Texas and with barely anything to eat, she retreats further and further into the world of her imagination – a world where she converses with fireflies and dismembered Barbie doll heads, a world where the meadow is the bottom of the ocean and a great shark swims about, a world where ghosts and frightening Bog Men are on the loose. Archive 2007-09-01
It is very frightening for a lot of people to readjust to working.
His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
It's a bit demoralising riding into the headwinds, and the sidewinds can be a frightening (being blown out into traffic being a Bad Thing).
To some, the idea of sexagenarian roommates having fun (and even getting laid) in their old age was too frightening to watch-but that was then, and this is now, where MILFs and even GILFs have their own video series, so how could a respectable parody producer not want to give these old broads their belated XXX bones? AVN Industry News
Their perception and insight into people is frighteningly accurate.
the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner
I had a frightening encounter with a poisonous snake.
In fact, I can turn them over with frightening rapidity.
Ultimately there are no obvious villains in the plague upon our froggy friends, and that is what's most frightening of all.
Anthony Hopkins was much more frightening as a serial killer than Currie is as the son of Satan.
So I think a lot of the intolerance we encounter with regard to sleep is about control issues, as we say, ways of telling ourselves we're in control of something that is frighteningly unsusceptible to control. 'Insomniac'
Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral.
If you want to get a bird's eye view of what's going on in the surrounding villages (not much) then a brisk climb up to their summits is suitably rewarding, even if it's only to see Range Rovers not giving way on the narrow lanes to gargantuan John Deere tractors with equally frightening implements sticking out the back. Autumn Ascents
It is frightening to most children to waken and find a stranger.
She could almost but not quite glimpse that his face was a bit non human looking, foreign in its tinyness, eyes without lashes, mouth a straight line, neck far too small, all of which could be frightening to look at deeply. The Illuminated Dream
The battle scenes were frighteningly realistic.
She was showing old fogey potential at a frighteningly young age.
Down the silvery cascade he glided and whirled away through the running water, frightening the minnows and miller's thumbs lying among the stones in the shallow places, and startling the crawfishes and little fresh water lobsters hidden under the hollow banks. The Magic Soap Bubble
More importantly, however, it sounds like a fantastic debut album by a boundless and frighteningly talented band.
It's easy, but frightening, to imagine Eagles coach Andy Reid turning cartwheels if he actually were to get Williams.
And fourth, the frightening violence of revolution is also ridiculed as a feminine loss of self-control.
Washing at a laundromat is one of the most frightening things a germophobe can do. Anhedonia (excerpt)
The consequences of being uninsured are frightening for all races, the study found.
But when he hits the frightening climax, the camera swerves at dizzying angles, the sound desynchs, and the makeup and sets become highly expressionistic.
I expect she was trying to escape the Suffolk weather, which, when it's not bombarding us with thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening), is chucking meteorites at us.
The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.
Not all global hegemons are equally frightening.
The degree of hateful violence expressed here by the anti-hunters, albeit nearly illiterately, is frightening.
I accept that the world is still as it always has been - namely, frightening and unsafe.
The truly frightening thing about terrorism is the awful randomness.
But she was freebasing cocaine similar to crack smoking, through transforming powder into base cocaine, and as the decade went on she was photographed looking disheveled and frighteningly haggard. Whitney Houston obituary
I admit I had a difficult time reading the review, since it focused heavily on topics that have little to do with cycling, such as color choices, "puckered" tubing, and the frighteningly intimate fitting process complete with lurid arrows: What Happens When You Consume: Asses For You and Me
Although it can be frightening, periodic breathing typically causes no other problems in newborns.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
These are again very frightening to watch, as the exhaust pipes glow cherry red to orange in colour and the noise is indescribable.
Don't stand so near the edge! You're frightening me.
The frightening thing is, though, is that I'd have had more chance of a response if I'd gone and chucked a brick through their window.
She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire.
Kathleen turned around to see that in the distance three men on horseback were riding towards her at a frighteningly swift speed.
Sexual harassment is quite common in schools and can be humiliating and frightening.
There was a frightening scene today on a major New York City expressway.
Just as frightening, and equally lethal, is the summer equivalent - a slick of engine oil on the road and a slight drizzle on top.
Thus did I read about FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court, and realize what a truly frightening thing this was.
In these examples, convincing and frightening are perlocutionary acts. Him
It was very frightening, and the entire journey was complicated by the fact that my daughter was airsick all the way.
Since that day Crossgar have produced a priceless team player and an influential vice-captain, a player quite capable of handling himself and at the same time frightening the life out of opponents.
Meanwhile our birthrate is still frighteningly low, and several hundred thousand women of marriageable age have no chance of getting husbands. As I Please
The prospect of increasing the risk of cancer is frightening, but you must keep certain facts in mind.
His outbursts of anger were so frightening, one of his fellow teachers said, that two children had wet their pants.
The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us.
It is all too knowing and jokily self-referential, so never frightening, and is dripping with unnecessarily gloopy gore. Times, Sunday Times
But instead, through his interaction with Keel, it takes him to places shadowy and frightening.
It would be impossible to find anywhere a more frightening example of self-imposed curses than these oaths.
Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
They boated in the daytime and read frightening poems to each other by night. Byron in Paradise
After a frightening, high-speed cab ride, we arrive and are greeted at the check-in counter with shots of pink ouzo.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
While I generally feel confident about my newfound path, the uncertain terrain can feel, at times, incredibly frightening. Women Grow Business » Once a Professional Dancer, Alexis Rodich Is Now ‘The Emerging Entrepreneur’: a New Series at Women Grow Business
When it comes to a topic that may be frightening and confusing for some students, like swine flu, a class discussion may have the additional benefits of allaying fears and empowering students to know which preventative measures are appropriate. Swine Flu and Media Literacy - BrainPOP | BrainPOP Educators
Console users take gaming seriously, and their brand loyalty is frightening.
After you've had a frightening eyeful, turn the page and discover where saturated and trans fats hide, and how to escape their deadly reach.
Yoon is a scientist with the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, and he embarked on this venture in 1989 with less than great enthusiasm: "When I first saw a clump of rather undistinguished-looking grass, it looked so ordinary and so frighteningly similar to the horrible 'lalang' 2 Case Studies
Wrenching sideways, I feel the rope make a sudden lurch down, frightening me.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
Jackie said: ‘I thought she was a goner and it was really frightening for us.’
Of all Stalin's hangmen, the most frightening was the last.
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
Whenever they have spoken at all they have said this; and they have said it on what has appeared good reason to them; the marching of an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to _you_ may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to _us_. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
What is more frightening is that prowlers can have the audacity to attack a home around 10: 00 hours and walk away untouched.
He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
God forbid, not the old refreshment rooms back again, with their watery tea, sausageless rolls and the most frightening thing known to man, a railway pork pie of uncertain age.
A stock index does not oscillate with such frightening amplitude as we have witnessed recently unless to announce some tectonic change ahead.
With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
Be clear that your child should tell you straight away if anything unusual or frightening has happened, even if it seems silly or trivial to him and especially if he's been told not to tell.
Nevertheless, she outraged not, though her eyes were frightening Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it. The Ontario Readers Third Book
Foster's performance is excellent, the obscure and mysterious scene setting is just frightening and the special effects are refreshing.
It is an example that must be so frightening to any thinking Frenchman.
We've lost sight of the fact that vampires should be unsettling, frightening, and not high school prom kings; but there's no mistaking in Let the Right One In that the vampire is a predator and we are her prey. MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2)
Take that silly mask off -- you're frightening the children.
It's a frightening situation and it's gotten to the point where I dread turning the news on.
The writing style I found to be turgid, which from a professor of communications is a rather frightening concept.
I don't want to say that it was a frightening situation, but my red nose did get pulled off and my curly orange wig was no more.
As for jeans, the backlash has begun on skinny jeans in women's fashion — bell-bottom versions have made frightening appearances on runways — and will follow in men's as well, though hopefully in a more understated way. No Headline Available
The mere realisation that it's possible, the frightening strength and unexpected occurrence of the surge of emotion is enough to give such a jolt to your body and your mind that you never forget.
Alcohol induces unnatural feelings and makes people act out of character; it's very easy to find oneself in a frightening situation.
No doubt he was remembering the boys who had, with frightening ease, outfought a gang of twice their number.
Jahdo frankly stared until one of the axemen glanced his way with a scowl, frightening him into looking elsewhere. A TIME OF WAR
'A frightening-looking youth with rings through his eyebrows and a shaved head offered him a toke of the joint, which he declined. LOST SUMMER
The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children.
Thus we do not intend to provide evidence here of frightening rates of soil loss and desertification throughout the world.
What if, say, I think the book I receive in the mail is a waste of pulp, a detriment to society and is frightening in the way that indoctrination literature always is?
Desire is frightening to Christians who are used to saying that only agape - unconditional, self-emptying love - is truly Christian.
Don't stand so near the edge! You're frightening me.
Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
A friend of mine, who has never had any breathing problems, found herself becoming frighteningly wheezy and my husband, who has a chronic chest complaint, is suffering more and more.
It's a little frightening to think what this decision could mean in the hands of one of those strictly Republican constructionists, isn't it?
I don't plan to repeat that performance, and hope the storm is of the snow falling kind, rather than the thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening dogs.
In fact, they knew full well that they were intimidating and frightening other people.
It all became something of a national computer game with life-like graphics, frightening and titillating Americans, reinforcing paranoid conceptions.
It's the apotheosis of frightening government power - the ability to take people away and lock them up without anyone knowing exactly who or precisely why.
Police are looking for a sex pest who is frightening late-night travellers.
You need look no further than "ET - The Extra-Terrestrial" to see an example of how the frightening prospect of the alien from outer space -- depicted as monstrous in a series of movies from the 1950s through the 1980s -- had now been dealt with far more satisfyingly, by being infantilized. Harry Shearer: Don't Demonize Political Opponents, Infantilize Them
The meeting is brief and frightening - charged with intelligence and crudity.
It's the darkest; it goes into the scariest, eeriest places; it required taking hard looks at frightening things, so it was emotionally draining. Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin
This looks quite frightening from the top, but it is easily descended by traversing to the far side of the hole.
Take that silly mask off -- you're frightening the children.
The place had a uniformed commissionaire, a dress circle and rude behaviour was ruthlessly stamped out by frightening torch-wielding usherettes.
Now that I have finally seen the light I can start working on helping to enlight others to the horrors of diversity and the frightening knowledge of other cultures! Jerome R. Corsi's #1 bestseller "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality."
It was strange, it was unusual and to be honest, it was a little bit frightening.
The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening. Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
Frankly I found it rather frightening." — "A little startling," Mark agreed.
The closure programme was pushed though against vociferous and sometimes frightening opposition.
The intensity of the hurricane was frightening.
The film keeps returning to that image: the frightening strangeness of school-age kids in shorts, killing ruthlessly.
But the larger, more frightening meaning of his statement is that in order to rid the world of a tinhorn dictator who posed no credible threat to the United States, it was just dandy to lie to the people.
Although staff at the Crooked Billet are reluctant to expand on frightening details, they do not wholly refute the suggestion that an Irish woman haunts the cellars.
He wore a black patch over his left eye while his good eye, hungry with greed, stared at Hitomi in a frightening star.
The sheer sight was frightening, "says the senior citizen, adding just the other day, a monkey pulled the 'dupatta' of a woman who was crossing the road, leaving her shocked. Primates in the News
The frightening specter of the dawn of some kind of Terminator Age is conjured up in the title an e-book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both professors at MIT The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The lack of court oversight is the problem, as the prosecutor is essentially free to create conditions or “education programs” (which in a criminal justice context has a frightening ring to it) that meet his personal ends. The Volokh Conspiracy » Stringent Constitutional Limits on Anger Management Classes, Anti-Drug/Alcohol-Abuse Classes, or Even Traffic School as Alternatives to Prosecution?
The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.
Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent.
With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint. A Vision in Concrete
I wonder, though, is working in a largish firm making good money really such a frightening cautionary tale? Discourse.net: Advice to the Pre-Law Student
All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
She took evident delight in frightening the children with horror stories.
She had never been lectured before by a teacher and the feeling was quite frightening.
Hopeless as was the attempt to catch the bird, the joy of frightening it was sure; and our guide sprang wildly from side to side of the building, uttering exciting exclamations, and making vain passes at the little creature, which flew round high above her head, now and then settling in some secure "coigne of vantage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
This gentleman is every bit as frightening as Darth Vader, complete with cape, dark red jumpsuit, and a bear-trap maw topped by a tattooed white dome.
But the idea of skink control in a space as large as a ladies 'room is frightening. Inexpectatus
And it's beautiful, beguiling music --- rich, compelling, and frightening beyond belief. LOVE YOU MADLY
Although her journey into madness is somewhat short-circuited, Rachel Pickup is also a frighteningly distrait Ophelia.
Everyone knows of the disasters unregulated commercial logging is causing in the world's tropical forests, disasters that are helped along by the frightening efficiency of machines like this monstrosity. Kill Some Trees On Earth Day
To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation.
Most frightening is Ressler's transformation - he develops depression verging on suicidal.
It's frightening to think that they, or any similar shining example of private enterprise, might have any role in the health service.
You’re suggesting that black and latina women aren’t bright enough to comprehend the subtleties of birth control, and therefore frightening them with hellfire is a better way to keep them in line. Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue

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