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Example sentences for: frightening

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Many thousands of young men have died a similarly frightening, needless death, and not a few memoirs have chronicled their last days.
Rainfall in Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, and South Lebanon is down a frightening 85 percent, the Sea of Galilee is at a dangerously low level, and the River Jordan could be a trickle by the end of the year.
Some fraygrants believe there's nothing to fear--this is geopolitics as usual; others find the subcontinental tests a frightening development.
It's a symptom of an electoral process rapidly turning into some frightening theme park, one section of which is Moralityland (the main ride being tempests revolving in teacups labeled Family Values, Defense of Religion, the War on Drugs, etc., etc.) Fortunately only a small, if loud, minority of the electorate live in Moralityland any more, and that's why New York residents oppose Giuliani 2-to-1.
Later on my trip, for example, I met a woman who had no special connections but had been sent here after she developed frightening stomach pains.