11 example sentences using fearful.
Fearful used in a sentence
Fearful in a sentence as an adjective
I am glad that men like he exist, bur I am genuinely fearful for his safety.
Mr. Obama, according to officials in the room, asked a series of questions, fearful that the code could do damage outside the plant.
The products they put out are heavily windows, heavily compliant, fearful of making waves with any stake holder.
They tend to be moralistic, less fearful of negative consequences when doing what they think is right, and prone to mood and anxiety disorders.
And who cares about some "keep the sheep fearful and in line" propoganda **** the US government puts out about supposed threats to embassies or whatever?
Oil companies who are fearful of incurring public outrage due to pipeline spills are only too happy to hand tanker cars over to the care of railway workers.
It doesn't matter the answer, but you're looking for employees who are fearful of management, or who have that form of stockholm syndrome that shows up in startups.-- Read the NDA they ask you to sign.
Internet porn was giving plenty of gay teenagers the sex education that society and the education system was too prudish and/or fearful to give them.
99% of this time this type of stuff stays private because the employee is fearful of repercussions and as a result, new employees never get warned about the mess they are walking into.
It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society.
Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for?Let's take a lot at what we can agree on:* The number of cases of infected patients is fairly small.
Fearful definitions
experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
See also: cowardly
extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
See also: frightful