frighten

Example Sentences

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In the review, she said: "The farming sector is bewildered and frightened of what might lie ahead."

From BBC

Hope says putting herself in the environment that made her frightened for short periods gradually helped her to get used to hospitals.

From BBC

He recalled "a terrific flash of lightning and almost instantaneous crash of thunder, which woke quite a few people up - and probably frightened Father Christmas".

From BBC

And so a coach known for defense had to watch his team get bludgeoned inside once again while giving up an unusually frightening number of easy baskets.

From Los Angeles Times

"When he died, he had been frightened to say, in advance to himself even, that he had cancer," he said, adding that the word cancer was "hardly usable then".

From BBC