frightfully

Example Sentences

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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

“OB is frightfully difficult to recruit, and I’m not real sure exactly why,” said the clinic’s chief medical officer Dr. Lee Jennings.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

He looks frightfully self-conscious, not so much like a man wearing uncomfortable wool or cotton but one who realizes he’s wearing the emperor’s clothes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

‘I can manage here. You ought to get away.' And Giles, and Bee, poor dear tactless Bee. ‘You’re looking frightfully ill, can’t you go and see a doctor?’

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier