frightfully
Example Sentences
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"He had black crew-cut hair and National Health glasses and was frightfully shy and very poor... I started selling the odd drawing on his behalf for seven or eight pounds."
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The sounds, those seductively embracing and those frightfully howling in the wind, became an acknowledged life in all its strangeness, the animal kingdom as counselor to our uncertainties, indulgences and differences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
"All the other people in the class were frightfully posh and they were all shrieking with laughter," Dame Sheila recalled.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
Alabama has mostly breezed through the first month of the season, with one big scare and three games that were frightfully but predictably easy.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
“It’s too close upstairs and frightfully hot in the day.”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
