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Example sentences for: frightening

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Of course, such a diagnostic system may prove to be more unwieldy in the end and to annoy insurance companies (who hold frightening sway over all health-care endeavors), and it is politically unlikely that such a dramatic shift will occur any time in the near future.
When, in 1998, LSC announced its intent to launch an initiative that would require massive restructuring of the national legal services delivery system, the announcement was also quite frightening and was not greeted, in many quarters, with open arms.
8 last year, shortly before she was to testify in the Paula Jones trial, Willey reportedly had a frightening encounter with a jogger near her house in Richmond, Va.--a complete stranger who nonetheless seemed to know quite a bit about Willey's children, her car, and her cat.
We see it first in the frightening pages of the Book of Revelation, the last pages of the New Testament.
You can educate parents and youth workers on the best ways to counsel teenagers about the frightening issues facing them, like drug use and premarital sex.