Frightful used in a sentence

Frightful in a sentence as an adjective

The thought of there being no reason for the universe is probably quite frightful for them.

Presumably someone holds their assets - but my guess is they're in even more frightful a mess.

Do you think squatters have nice warm homes that they could actually go back to if they weren't being such frightful brutes?

Or he might feel that he had actually inflicted frightful punishment on the cat by keeping him alive.

I have a close relative who list a fiancee to a glioma, and that kind of brain cancer is a very frightful disease.

"Clearly there are descriptions of God's kindled wrath that is admittedly frightful and overwhelming.

Perhaps Dustin Curtis really is only fourteen years old and is a frightful bounder who drops his aitches and has cocoa and bloaters for supper.

The more I hear about this frightful bill, the more I have to conclude it's Mandelson's effort to poison the wells ahead of the inevitable Labour defeat.

One worker as "something frightful and infernal", and although the rooms were hot, windows were often kept closed during the summer so that conditions for thread work remained optimal.

But as someone with a frightfully high metabolism and frequent eating schedule, a healthily food-centric company culture sounds unbelievably awesome.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

The very definition of a ladder kicker.>The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

Quote Examples using Frightful

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. -From the opening paragraph of The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft

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