Meanings of frightening moment in English

The first frightening moment for the swimmers came as they neared the herd of sperdens.

The most frightening moment of his trip was the crossing of the Aegean to Lesbos.

He hesitated, and for a frightening moment she thought he was going to push her away.

It was a frightening moment for me - I felt truly helpless, embarrassed, humiliated, and afraid.

A Victorian man has told of the frightening moment a magpie swooped and attacked both his eyes.

I thought this would calm him, but for a long, frightening moment he continued to glower at me.

It was a frightening moment, Abner.

It was the most frightening moment of my entire life and I was, quite literally, struck dumb with terror.

Anxiety and anger hang in the air, politeness filed to an exquisite edge in this most humiliating and frightening moment.

There was a frightening moment in the fourth quarter, as Robert Covington and Davis collided as Davis rose for a rebound.

After standing indecisively for a long, frightening moment, I started to help pick up the papers that had blown onto the grass.

Looking into Zoltan's eyes, for a frightening moment Grigori felt that rare but seizing impulse: a distinct, nearly physical, longing to tell his story.

Another frightening moment occurred in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia when Intrepid was stalked by a suspected pirate boat as Sunderland repeatedly took evasive action.

The most frightening moments are those that seem to be arriving with increasing frequency.

Patrick was not unconscious, but he couldn't breathe at all for a few frightening moments.

Those last frightening moments came back to her.