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Frightening in sentence

454 examples of Frightening in a sentence

What we've seen though is very frightening.
It was frightening, and it showered us with leaves and a pungent smell.
It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to, but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed when we do.
And in an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
Everyone was glued to the TV, watching disturbing, frightening images taken from the edge of the neighborhood.
And it's frightening, isn't it?
This is frightening.
But there's a third possibility, an enticing, intriguing and frightening possibility.
This is a really important time in my life, because it would be the first time that I really would be challenging the system, me, and although I was working with a lot of other friends who had disabilities who were encouraging me to move forward with this, it was nonetheless quite frightening.
And what is happening today is, in one sense, frightening because it's never happened before.
It's scary to think of ourselves as that powerful, frightening to think we can matter that much to other people.
The thought of the warfarin was really quite frightening.
You can see on the right here, there's a predator being chased away by the collective power of the birds, and apparently this is a frightening thing if you're a predator of starlings.
'You're frightening me,' one of them said, and Rebel and Val headed back into the library.
While I was preparing to write my student note for the Yale Law Journal on mechanical restraints, I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist, and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading, painful and frightening.
It's confusing to watch television, and often very frightening.
So I tend to stay in my room a lot because I find them quite frightening.
So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what it's like to be afraid.
I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.
But they'd heard some frightening rumors.
Now this is the most frightening thing to me.
It's frightening.
And two weeks after this drawing was done, we actually had our first project contract, at AeroVironment, on robotic cockroaches, which was very frightening to me.
And that's frightening.
SS: I think these results seem very realistic and intriguing, but at the same time frightening, even to me.
For years, I'd been writing glib lines in sponsorship proposals about pushing the limits of human endurance, but in reality, that was a very frightening place to be indeed.
I had to figure it out, because along with the invitation came the frightening reminder that there would be no projector, so bringing those carousels would no longer be necessary but some alternate form of communication would.
I have faced head-on these places, and to walk across a melting ocean of ice is without doubt the most frightening thing that's ever happened to me.
Hercules returned to Tiryns wearing the lion’s hide, frightening King Eurystheus so much that he hid in a wine jar.
My new world was really exciting but often quite overwhelming and frightening.
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