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Example sentences for: frighten

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Republicans, more creatively, are trying to frighten small children with the supposedly terrifying specter of "Speaker Gephardt."
Most millennial apocalypse fantasies have been promulgated by the religious right, which wants to frighten people into repenting their liberal attitudes toward the Scripture.
"Supposed Chinese spies frighten the GOP, which denounces Clinton's bombing of Belgrade, which kills supposed Chinese spies."
This should frighten the daylights out of the RPH.
Burton's early creatures, however fantastic, had a sadly mundane aura, like the ghosts in Beetlejuice (1988) who looked so silly in their designer sheets that they couldn't even frighten a child.