Words similar to frightening

Example sentences for: frightening

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

In some important ways, Japan today bears a strong resemblance to the United States in that frightening summer of 1982.
Sometimes, when I read Fish (his frightening "Mission Impossible" essay, for example), I get swept up by his great gift, and am ready to move the family to the woods to avoid the end of the world.
Many thousands of young men have died a similarly frightening, needless death, and not a few memoirs have chronicled their last days.
And a full-page ad in the Sunday NYT introduced a truly frightening phenomenon: The Ralph Lauren Barbie doll.
That would reveal a brutal willingness to deceive the public--way beyond the normal politicians' cynicism--as well as a frightening lack of self-control ..."