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Meanings of frightening thing in English

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Usage of frightening thing in English
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That look was the most frightening thing I had as yet experienced.
Purity of blood
2
Perhaps the most frightening thing, oddly, was the way the man talked.
Cauldron of Ghosts
3
Until yesterday the most frightening thing about Eirik Bakke was his dad.
The Irish Times
4
He was the most frightening thing I'd ever seen in my life.
Dead until dark
5
The frightening thing is that it actually happened in September 2015.
The Guardian
6
Perhaps the most frightening thing in it is probably John Elway's xtra-wide collar.
Wired
7
The frightening thing was, I knew the gods would hold me to it.
The Sea of Monsters
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But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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It was a really frightening thing to see something like that.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
10
The passion that stole his mind when composing was a dark, frightening thing.
Forge of Darkness
11
The frightening thing was that a part of him didn't give a damn.
Heart of gold
12
When they have the ability to steal your heart away, it's a frightening thing.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
13
The frightening thing was Rachel's certainty that tranquility was nothing more than an illusion.
My deadly valentine
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The recognition between them-that each knew the frightening thing Elmer Scales had seen-made speech impossible.
Ghost Story
15
The power of one's beliefs is a frightening thing.
Ghosts
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The most frightening thing: It was impossible to detect the source, the instant when things changed.
The Girls
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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