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Example sentences for: frightening

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Even within the new and frightening landscape of the post-Sept. 11 world, the familiar landmarks of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights can -- indeed, must -guide us.
The most frightening thing to me about all this talk of nature and biology is that what is really being naturalized is the marginality of female voices.
In addition, such measurements may be uncomfortable, frightening and/or expensive, and divert the focus away from the symptom.
It reads like going to prison feels--suffocating and alien and frightening.
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.