Words similar to fright
Example sentences for: fright
How can you use “fright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The men faint, run away, or become deathly ill of susto (fright).
Is Chatterbox incapable of Art House Fright?
Mehta's writerly persona, a disarming mixture of the feline and the naive, is perfect for relating the little scandals that worried The New Yorker in the late '70s (plagiarism, frozen turbot), the drama of finding a worthy candidate to succeed the aging Shawn as editor, the purchase of the magazine by the evil Si Newhouse ("We all took fright") and the resultant plague of Gottliebs and Florios visited upon it, and what he sees as the final debacle: Tinaji.
It also gives just the slightest salutary fright to colleagues and students.
Other spelled-out bodily reactions range from eructation to fright, though admittedly people sometimes over-pronounce the sounds for a humorous effect.