On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Frightful. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as atrocious or fearful and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Frightful meaning
- Full of fright, whether
- Afraid, frightened.
Synonyms of Frightful
Using Frightful
- The main meaning on this page is: Full of fright, whether | Afraid, frightened. | Full of fright, whether
- Useful related words include: atrocious, fearful, extraordinary, tremendous.
- In the example corpus, frightful often appears in combinations such as: the frightful, been frightful, most frightful.
Context around Frightful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Frightful
- In this selection, "frightful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, experience, uttering, almost, presents, hour and strength stand out and add context to how "frightful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a frightful encounter offered and about their frightful activities. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "frightful" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with frightful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Oh, the weather outside is frightful. (6 words)
The Weather Outside Is Still Frightful – but Fun. (8 words)
A frightful encounter offered Beowulf an opportunity to show bravery. (10 words)
And as Warwick-Clark takes her seat across from me, the noise around us is an almost frightful reminder of the fact that we’re both students — even if we want to focus on our artistic pursuits. (37 words)
A great premise stretched into the realm of the ridiculous in all of the best ways, Dr. Frightful Presents: A Frightful hour almost feels like it shouldn’t work as well as it does. (34 words)
There was grenades going off, machine guns, so that was a very very frightful moment for my family and for a lot other people that were sleeping in the jungle that night. (32 words)
Luckily the has planned some frightful fun for all ages! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
A great premise stretched into the realm of the ridiculous in all of the best ways, Dr. Frightful Presents: A Frightful hour almost feels like it shouldn’t work as well as it does.
She has very little depth throughout most of the series, and though she has frightful strength in her demon form, Nezuko doesn't contribute much to fights.
The violence itself is secondary to the frightful ambiguity in its wake, and to the relief when it becomes clear that it was them, not us, who lost out.
While the weather outside has been frightful the high school’s winter sports teams are off to a roaring start.
A frightful encounter offered Beowulf an opportunity to show bravery.
From being kidnapped at gunpoint to a frightful face-off with "lots of game blokes with machetes", the end seemed far away but he managed to power through.
Mr Oldridge added: "Even in the age of witch trials, people told entertaining tales about their frightful activities.
She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC told Nicoll: “As you described it yourself in your letter to the court, this would have been a frightful experience.
There was grenades going off, machine guns, so that was a very very frightful moment for my family and for a lot other people that were sleeping in the jungle that night.
His creation of the Frightful Four is a great idea, fighting as a team making more sense than trying to win a four on one with the Fantastic four.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful.
The Weather Outside Is Still Frightful – but Fun.
They are ‘frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed’ — all words pulled from the Anglo-Saxon lexicon.
And while the forest was burning, hundreds and thousands of living creatures, uttering frightful yells, began to run about in all directions.
Luckily the has planned some frightful fun for all ages!
And as Warwick-Clark takes her seat across from me, the noise around us is an almost frightful reminder of the fact that we’re both students — even if we want to focus on our artistic pursuits.
As he put it: “We hear nowadays of a frightful problem called a Negro problem.
His countenance, which was naturally hideous and frightful, he purposely rendered more so, forming it before a mirror into the most horrible contortions.
I can also confirm that something frightful is brewing in our country and we must all be prayerful and vigilant.
Common combinations with frightful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: