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Example sentences for: frightened

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

In some ways the wall itself was responsible for subsequent overcrowding and disease because people were too frightened to live outside it.
Children were terribly frightened because of his horrid appearance.
In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.
The authors wrote that they were "saddened and frightened" by the implications of this choice, and they blamed the white intelligentsia for legitimizing it.
He's so frightened of communicating with his children that he has to caricature himself . The source of his comedy is also what makes him tragic.