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 France, Libération said in an editorial Friday that the missile attacks, far from frightening "the great ethnic purifier of the Balkans," had made him look almost in the right.
Great was also once a frightening word.
From here in 1776 George Washington trained his artillery on the city and succeeded in frightening British troops into evacuating Boston.
"It is terrible that something so frightening should be given the name of something so pure and beautiful," says Luz Marlene Sierra Mayorga, a Bogotá engineer, referring to "miraculous fishing"--which is what?
Gore is "top of the class, very cultivated, and well up on everything," while Bush's "total lack of political culture is obvious and is frightening," she said.