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    Use "frightful" in a sentence

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    frightful


    1. This wallpaper will make a mess when we strip it and there is nothing like trying to get soggy bits of wallpaper out of a carpet! Jack was frightful when it came to preparation … brilliant at decorating, but I was always the one who had to think ahead and make contingency plans


    2. ’ I said quietly, pausing in my task of sandwich making and staring into the past for a moment, remembering those frightful days when I had tried to sort through the accumulation of a lifetime of marriage


    3. Upon it Kate and Lady Ashley projected a frightful image of a terrible looking creature


    4. Seems pretty frightful to me, but I daresay the quantity of water in the wasteg does the job without pollution being a problem


    5. ‘Oh? In what way?’ I explain that my boyfriend (what a frightful term but what else do I call him?) has moved in with me


    6. The mother wanted to call the little girl ‘Bunty’ but Bunty wouldn’t have it, said that it was a frightful name for a child and suggested Gail


    7. Poor Terry, she was in such a frightful state and why? Because some ‘friend’ decided to stir things …that makes me angry … relationships are complicated enough without outside interference


    8. It’d been frightful the other night, but right then it wasn't anything more than another house


    9. Suddenly the ice gave way, with a frightful crack, and fell away


    10. “Its that's blasted TV Robert bought it has no proper channels its all so terrifying, frightful, Paul its driving us out of our minds!”

    11. "They have few eyewitness accounts," Alfred replied, "and we weren't alien enough, we were two men and a woman and a frightful sky ship


    12. and in such frightful a fashion that I wonder, still, what I had


    13. As a result, what could have been a pleasant and fruitful life for her was constantly interrupted by thoughts of ineptitude and feelings of despair due to her frightful failing to find peace in her daily journey ahead on the many and varied paths she followed


    14. Lady Dread is a very frightful group of people


    15. On July 7th, a frightful storm raged, swamping the trenches and adding to the difficulties and discomforts of the army


    16. Had injudicious censorship allowed news of the plight of our forces to reach Madrid, Spain would have hurled its strength towards the city's defences, to save a national disgrace by assault at frightful sacrifice


    17. "Calling the Sewage Department wasn’t a very good idea though, because they left the house in a frightful mess, what with ripping up the floors in a search of a non-existent broken sewer pipe


    18. Like a bolt from the blue, the little box wailed its frightful pitch, shattering his dreams


    19. Only they could scream in that frightful way


    20. There I was greeted by a middle-aged man with some frightful scars on his face and arms

    21. beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments


    22. frightful look that could have been mistaken as a smile


    23. 45 And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state drenched them with incense and wine and decked them with frightful instruments


    24. After all, who would dare brave such a frightful night?


    25. I was concerned about the effect this display could have on clients, not about the frightful Frances


    26. This time, there was a frightful howling noise, then they saw the wolves who lived all across the fields and hills go running off into the distance as if their tails were on fire


    27. But it is quite possible that he might think: “What a frightful crime is that man' s drunkenness; how terrible is its effect upon his wife and children!


    28. They could no longer see the flying figure, but they still heard his frightful screams, dwindling in the distance, and echoing as from vaulted roofs


    29. 'Thaug!' As in answer to that frightful invocation there boomed a thunderous croaking from within the temple, the snapping of wood and metal


    30. It was a war of souls, of frightful brains steeped in lore forbidden to men for a million years, of mentalities which had plumbed the abysses and explored the dark stars where spawn the shadows

    31. the Israelites were given a frightful choice –


    32. A frightful scene met his glare


    33. She was caught in a frightful trap


    34. Then Balthus forgot his exasperation as his ears were outraged by the most frightful cry he had ever heard


    35. The great brute squatted below, watching the crag with the frightful patience of the reptile folk


    36. Something touched his foot that chilled like the touch of frost, and then the darkness beneath him was disturbed by a frightful thrashing and lashing, and a man cried out in agony


    37. His sobs grew shriller, changed to frightful, high-pitched laughter, and that in turn became an unbearable screaming


    38. Soft white hands that had caressed him, red lips that had been pressed to his, dainty white bosoms that had quivered to his hot fierce kisses, to be stripped of their delicate skin, white as ivory and pink as young petals—from Conan's lips burst a yell so frightful and inhuman in its mad fury that a listener would have stared in horror to know that it came from a human throat


    39. 'Those same thieves—or rather those of them who still lived after their frightful quest—stole the Heart of Ahriman from its haunted cavern below the temple of Mitra, and all the skill of men and the spells of sorcerers nearly failed


    40. She and the frightful look of the saints in the glow of the nocturnal lamp were the two memories he retained of the house

    41. Imagine the laissez-faire attitude of a cafe in Nice contrasted with the frightful panic of a deadly chase through the crowded city streets of Cairo, or a gorgeous sunny seascape with a looming shadow just at the edge of your vision


    42. Great special commandos of a great super power were struggling to save their own lives just like frightful cats


    43. “Centuries ago, our two species were constantly at war, with frightful losses on both sides


    44. That fateful, frightful, terrifying moment, all those years ago, was forever etched on his brain


    45. Where I had used phrases such as stunning electro vibes and early fuzzy guitar riffs he had put in flippant comments in the margin like How frightful y modern! or Total y with it, man! I incorporated his improvements, and resolved to complete my part of the book over the next few


    46. Sit beside it, as it were, and regard the frightful wound to your self-esteem as the removal of deep illusions which existed before and which this chance has torn


    47. With a fearsome, deep throated sound it prepared itself for the frightful leap, and yet our self- assured officer bellowed in a long-drawn-out voice that sounded like the rumble of thunder: ‘Bullets!’ Miraculously, the beast became calm once again and squatted on its haunches, while our officer continued to smoke, utterly contented and totally in control of the strange situation in which he found himself


    48. For example, the period of religious impotence and the abandonment of Al’lah’s law, ‘Al-Torah’, led the Israelites themselves into a period of frightful descent into a dangerous spiritual whirl, which was a case similar to that of Pharaoh and his people before them, when magic had prevailed due to their retrogression (as we have previously noted)


    49. Shocked by such behaviour, not sure he oughtn't at once to call in the police, Soames went so far as to make a plunge forward and catch the mounting stranger by the arm--with the most frightful effect on Edward's blood


    50. It felt like he’d stepped out of his body, and now he was reliving those frightful minutes that had so altered his life, releasing all the jumbled emotions he’d kept stashed away for 15 years














































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    Synonyms for "frightful"

    atrocious frightful horrible horrifying ugly fearful awful terrible tremendous morbid alarming awesome grisly traumatic dire calamitous shocking offensive lewd wrong wicked

    "frightful" definitions

    provoking horror


    extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact


    extremely distressing