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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.