Get to know Frighten better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like fright or stir.
Frighten in a sentence
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Frighten meaning
- To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
- To become scared or alarmed.
Synonyms of Frighten
Using Frighten
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright. | To become scared or alarmed.
- Useful related words include: fright, drive away, turn back, drive out.
- In the example corpus, frighten often appears in combinations such as: to frighten, and frighten, frighten us.
Context around Frighten
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Frighten
- In this selection, "frighten" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sufficiently, people, away and others stand out and add context to how "frighten" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attempt to frighten us and attempting to frighten his own. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "frighten" sits close to words such as aac, abdallah and abdication, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with frighten
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Legendary “missile gaps” were confected to frighten lawmakers. (8 words)
Models seem to be used to frighten people. (8 words)
Putin is using the nuclear issue to frighten us. (9 words)
Besides a walking burned corpse, some cartel gunmen and a giant surgeon who looks like a reject from the franchise, there aren’t many things in this one to frighten viewers. (31 words)
He’s routinely lashed out at woke overreach, mocked the left’s embrace of policies that frighten most voters, and stood tall for free speech when others took a knee. (30 words)
As cows (or horses) slowly trudge through fields of grass, they frighten well-hidden insects into evasive maneuvers and the cattle egrets take that opportunity to gobble them up. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ahead of a judicial overhaul that could transform the country and frighten away investors, the executives of Start-Up Nation are mulling an exodus.
As cows (or horses) slowly trudge through fields of grass, they frighten well-hidden insects into evasive maneuvers and the cattle egrets take that opportunity to gobble them up.
Banning breeds can also increase their popularity, especially with those who seek to use dogs for wrong purposes - to harm or frighten others.
Just because it’s spooky season doesn’t mean you should frighten your party guests with rubbish Halloween food.
Like Berger, Moore accused Cooper of spreading misinformation about the bill “to frighten voters” and predicted a swift override in his chamber.
One popular claim circulating Monday suggested, with no evidence, that the U.S. deployed the airborne devices as a way to frighten and distract Americans.
Putin is using the nuclear issue to frighten us.
The film does deliver grotesque gore, but it aims less to frighten audiences and more to entertain them with a madcap adventure.
He’s routinely lashed out at woke overreach, mocked the left’s embrace of policies that frighten most voters, and stood tall for free speech when others took a knee.
In a on X (formerly Twitter) on May 26, 2024, Sunday, Medvedev implied that Sikorski was attempting to frighten his own superiors rather than relay actual US policy.
Legendary “missile gaps” were confected to frighten lawmakers.
Tehran may decide that simply having the and perhaps other vessels in the Red Sea will sufficiently frighten Western shipping lines and rattle the Prosperity Guardian coalition.
We don't want to frighten you but we do want you to be aware there could be a significant weather event affecting Louisiana between those dates.
All that, plus regular columnists, two pages of letters and lots more to frighten and entertain you — and maybe to help you navigate these scary days.
Besides a walking burned corpse, some cartel gunmen and a giant surgeon who looks like a reject from the franchise, there aren’t many things in this one to frighten viewers.
He loves to frighten people first with his drastic looks and follow it up with his sick humor.
He said: “Khan also showed us the bomb around his waist in an attempt to frighten us.
He was an IT professional before his arrest and tried to frighten his targets with details he'd found about them and their families.
Horror fans know Junji Ito as "the" Japanese horror mangaka, specializing in stories that disturb and frighten readers like few authors can.
Models seem to be used to frighten people.
Common combinations with frighten
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to frighten 51×
- and frighten 8×
- frighten us 5×
- frighten his 5×
- frighten the 5×
- frighten people 4×
- not frighten 4×
- frighten me 4×
- frighten away 3×
- frighten and 3×