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Frightened in sentence

522 examples of Frightened in a sentence

What sharp hisses and snorts unique to these frightened animals!
A few frightened sperm whales were fleeing toward the horizon.
Through the lounge's open windows, I saw large, frightened fish passing like phantoms in the fiery waters.
He had lived a life of noisy debauch, full of duels, bets, elopements; he had squandered his fortune and frightened all his family.
What was certain was that he made complex calculations in his head that would have frightened Binet himself.
Her face frightened the child, who began to scream.
Yet the prospect of a new condition of life frightened as much as it seduced him.
One day, however, Monsieur Lheureux met her coming out of the Hotel de Boulogne on Leon's arm; and she was frightened, thinking he would gossip.
Then he was frightened, and went away.
What had once charmed now frightened him a little.
But the next day at twelve o'clock she received a summons, and the sight of the stamped paper, on which appeared several times in large letters, "Maitre Hareng, bailiff at Buchy," so frightened her that she rushed in hot haste to the linendraper's.
Then she was frightened, pushed back her chair, and cast down her eyes.
She gasped as she turned her eyes about her, while the peasant woman, frightened at her face, drew back instinctively, thinking her mad.
How pale you are! how hot you are!"Her mother looked at her."I am frightened!" cried the child, recoiling.
Then, in a stammering, frightened voice, "Oh, no! not that.
The manly air which is generally considered essential to masculine beauty would have frightened her.
Next, this idea frightened him; a moment later, he said to himself: 'It would be cowardly on my part not to carry out an action which may be of use to me, and diminish the scorn which this fine lady probably feels for a poor workman, only just taken from the sawbench.'
But of what?'His meditation as to what could have frightened the prosperous and powerful man against whom, an hour earlier, he had been seething with rage completely restored Julien's serenity.
She was frightened and even more shocked.
His intelligence positively frightened her; she thought she could perceive more clearly every day the future great man in this young cleric.
He examined his hunting knife, which had a keen blade; but the thought of bloodshed frightened him.
Madame de Renal was frightened by her husband's cold anger, it brought back to her mind the fatal thought of widowhood, which she found it so hard to banish.
He would be frightened and would never show his face there again.
Julien found himself greeted by the Director in the manner which had so frightened him on the day of his joining the Seminary.
The boar, although stone dead, frightened the younger boys; they fingered his tusks.
Those eyes, which governed his destiny, frightened him at first, seen at such close range, then jerked him violently out of his habitual apathy; he talked, and talked very well.
My presence must, at first, have frightened him.
K. then stood still for a while, combed his hair with the help of a pocket mirror, picked up his hat from the next stair - the information-giver must have thrown it down there - and then he ran down the steps so fresh and in such long leaps that the contrast with his previous state nearly frightened him.
"You needn't be frightened at every word.
They see his ideas of what's inside the law as rather childish, and suppose he's afraid himself of what he wants to make the man frightened of.
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