Example sentences for: fearsome

How can you use “fearsome” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Incidentally, the name “Devil’s Hole” derives from the sound of the seawater entering and leaving the hole, rather than from the fearsome reputation of some of its inhabitants.

  • It also ran a feature describing the Khmer Rouge, "with its last few hundred guerrillas on the run," as "a mere shadow of the fearsome army which once subjected the entire country to unbridled terror."

  • But she, for one, is so humbled by the wrath of Giuliani, whose know-nothingism is attached to fearsome punitive powers, that she has joined her local chapter of Pundits Anonymous.

  • Campaign-finance watchdogs' spin: It's an attempt to curb DeLay's fearsome power and ruthlessness.

  • The highest peak on La Gomera, Alto de Garajonay is 1,487 m (4,878 ft) — this is no great height by Canaries standards, yet the island often gives the impression of being a fearsome maze of eerie crags.


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