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Example sentences for: fearsome

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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."
It still transforms its viewers into witnesses; it still asks of them the same fearsome question: What have you to do with this?
A self-congratulatory seven-page spread celebrates the Talk launch party: "In the distance, beneath Madame Liberty, feline Kate Moss, fearsome Robert De Niro, bronze-bodied Pierce Brosnan."
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.
The dispreferred expression may be taboo, fearsome, distasteful, or for some other reason have too many negative connotations to felicitously execute Speaker's particular communicative intention on a given occasion.