frighten

First used by Ottoman military "mehter" bands to frighten and demoralise the enemy, cymbals were a useful tool for an empire on the warpath.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

I was aware that I didn’t want to frighten my kids with it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

He’s a student of life as much as he is filmmaking, a humanist who forges connections with spectacular sights of the things that frighten and fascinate us the most.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

"Until yesterday, I never thought there would be something that would frighten me of going back to Liverpool after the break. Team-mates come and go but not like this," Salah posted last summer.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

He thought, now he won’t be able to frighten me, he won’t be leader any more.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

"I would need to take two trains, taking my Zimmer frame and everything else I need. It just frightens me."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

What frightens Ms. Stern most isn’t simply that the AfD might become stronger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It frightens me how painfully ironic it feels to cover a film about my industry’s demise when it was “The Devil Wears Prada” that pointed me here in the first place.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

I’m not here to persuade you to fly if it frightens you that much.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

Love, Celia October n, 1946 Gustavo, Jorge says my smile frightens him, so I look in the mirror and try on old smiles.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

After some of the attacks, Weinberg would ask the frightened women to speak with other potential models who were nervous about letting him photograph them, according to the February court filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But despite the typos and inconsistencies in the emails, I understood how such an unsophisticated scam might actually be effective if the mark was sufficiently confused—or frightened.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

He later told the BBC the people working on the technology were "genuinely frightened" about the speed of its advancements and what it could mean for humanity.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

That is precisely why the NFL, and not the frightened kid, should be the one to move first.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Jay Berry,” she said in a frightened voice, “that thing’s not a monkey. It looks like a young gorilla. You be careful.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

However, the first few months in Biles’ long-awaited dream home have also included a frightening chapter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

"She's just like her dad, it's frightening; she looks so much like him, she's got his mannerisms, she's adorable, athletic, sporty," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even more frightening are the claims made about how this information is gathered.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

That makes it seem so tame, but it’s so, so frightening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

“This period was one of the most intense, frightening, and meaningful times of my life,” Patricia Ellsberg later said of the months leading up to the trial.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin