Example sentences for: terrifyingly

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

  • He can't control his impulses, especially the libidinal ones; he has an unattractive tendency to blame other people for his problems; he has a terrifyingly effective gift for misleading and, occasionally, telling outright lies.

  • But think of Darger in the context either of children's books and cartoons (anything from Tom & Jerry to the terrifyingly brutal but also extremely popular German children's book Strumpelpeter ) or of contemporary art (Maggie Robbins' 1989 "Barbie Fetish," for instance--a naked Barbie doll stuck all over with little nails), and it's MacGregor who begins to look like the outsider.

  • But, in the early '50s, novelties weren't so much a novelty as terrifyingly ubiquitous.

  • "[T]here came a point when Bunny had a kind of terrifyingly loose and constant moistness, the kind of totally loose submission one detects in a woman he has impregnated, the moist eyes, the warm moist hands, the loose moist breasts beneath the cotton blouse."

  • Despite the fact that it is awkward to describe, there is nothing terrifyingly profound about this observation: all it means is that hot means `hot,' hotter means `more hot, of a higher temperature than that designated by hot ,' and hottest means `most hot, of a temperature that is greater than that of anything else being considered.


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