Example sentences for: frightened

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

  • I was too frightened to approach Courtney, but Mike Leigh wasn't.

  • On Meet the Press , GOP National Chairman Jim Nicholson looks humbled and frightened.

  • Mussolini hated Hitler and wanted him to be defeated, Mack Smith said, but he eventually entered the war as his ally because he was frightened that the Germans would otherwise invade Italy.

  • Perot and his Concord Coalition allies, the New Englanders Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman, were as horrified by the federal deficit as the Mugwumps had been appalled by the support of Bryanite populists for bimetallism and as the Liberal Republicans, a generation earlier in the Gilded Age, had been frightened by paper money.

  • When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be.


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