How to Use frightening in a Sentence

frightening

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• Their teeth might be the most frightening thing of all.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The void left by the decline of the nation-state is frightening.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• The first and, sometimes most frightening, step is to jump in.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Jan. 2023
• During the rough flight, Lance couldn't shake the frightening thought of the plane crashing.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
• There’s no need to fret if these price jumps look a bit frightening.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2023
• Read on to check out EW's picks for Craven's 15 most frightening films.
  — Will Harris, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• What’s frightening, Thorne said, is that the state could allow the lessons of Lahaina to fade.
  — Darryl Fears, Allyson Chiu and Elahe Izadi, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The frightening thing is that some are falling for it, because, at least in the case of Combs, the AI voice is just that good.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• The most frightening part is how a program like San Diego State tries to trade punches with the big boys.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• The outline of a frightening head seems to spew bodies into the sea.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Was this a frightening scene of a landmark imperiled or just a trick of the eye?
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• The book opens with a flight through a pretty frightening lightning storm.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• Most frightening is the drug that seems to be everywhere these days.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• After the movie ended, Amma, my mom, shared that her move to the U.S. was frightening in the ways depicted in the movie.
  — Deepa Purushothaman, Fortune, 7 May 2024
• All the while, there are glimpses of frightening tech developments with big roles to play in the story.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 31 May 2023
• The first-place Denver Nuggets are about as frightening as an old broomstick.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• The colossal monster proved to be a little frightening for 9-year-old Woodard on set.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
• That's what's kind of frightening about the concussion thing.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
• This is the most frightening demonstration of the day, one staged by the Dawn Project on a street blocked off to regular traffic.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
• The mother did her best and fended for herself through a frightening episode.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• However, the outcome of the game was as frightening as a haunted house.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2023
• And the results, published just in time for fall baking, are frightening.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
• The performances are fearless here, and made frightening by the cold remove that Haneke keeps from them.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• The updates were scarce, which only made the matter more frightening.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
• Others are more broad but even more frightening, like war and climate change.
  — Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
• But the scene on Saturday night in Netanya, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, was a frightening glimpse of what could be coming.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Much of the film rests on a razor’s edge between funny and frightening, which makes its twists and turns all the more surprising.
  — EW.com, 2 June 2024
• Over the weekend, one of his performances took a frightening turn.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 10 July 2023
• Nurturing breezes can become frigid gusts, and the quiet wonder of late fall might turn eerie and frightening.
  — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
• However, Humbert decided to go it alone and ended up being the victim of quite a frightening shark attack.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024