Causing fear or dread or terror.
The act of inspiring with fear.
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Examples for "terrible "
Examples for "terrible "
1 The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
2 Elizabeth blushed and looked grave; to her the matter seemed too terrible .
3 His Eminence in scarlet is magnificent; his Eminence in gray is terrible .
4 Torches flashed in the boats that put off in the terrible search.
5 The news of the terrible insurrection of the catholics in Ireland followed.
1 The awful in the natural forces, moral and material, seems his element.
2 Southern Asia in general is the seat of awful images and associations.
3 Language which disguises the awful reality of war is often standard practice.
4 The road was in an awful state: it was deep in mud.
5 Never before had there been so awful a crisis in Jewish history.
1 We had reached a point where the dreadful partnership could not continue.
2 It was happening; in a dreadful form of slow-motion it was happening.
3 The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built.
4 Those dreadful tragedies have relevance to what is happening in Ireland today.
5 Nearly blind; dreadful pain; can do nothing to-day; no sleep last night.
1 It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
2 There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
3 A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
4 The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful .
5 And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
1 Then I finally ask the question to which I dread the answer.
2 I've certainly never seen an interviewee approach the photoshoot with greater dread .
3 Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
4 I was struck with dread ; the Queen then appeared in the balcony.
5 Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread .
1 My Dad was 'on duty' and received the dreaded call from work.
2 It's that dreaded time of year again in the US tax time.
3 The young Vito, however, felt a cold anger for the dreaded Fanucci.
4 The dreaded acronym is, of course, SAC - Special Areas of Conservation.
5 In company she dreaded contempt; and in solitude she only found anxiety.
1 In the right context, the scary - looking number may prove the Ivorian's point.
2 For a scary moment, I saw things from her point of view.
3 In fact it did it with just two scary words: higher taxes.
4 The US state of Louisiana is facing a very serious, scary threat.
5 Given the numbers, that's a scary thought for upcoming New England opponents.
1 For foreign investors who held French banknotes the situation was particularly dire .
2 All of this exacerbated the dire financial situation of the new government.
3 It's not going to result in dire consequences, but it's not good.
4 Wood said the United States wanted to help people in dire need.
5 He said most people understood that the situation in Iraq was dire .
1 They are at risk of human trafficking and horrific abuse and exploitation.
2 I just hope we do the work to right this horrific wrong.
3 Witnessing horrific health cases, one after the other, was a heartbreaking experience.
4 So far in the 99th Tour de France, nothing horrific has happened.
5 The video shows a horrific attack on a South African police officer.
1 In those days a doctor's office could indeed be a fearsome place.
2 The trailer must represent a large and fearsome change in their environment.
3 She says however fearsome it might look, the axe is not sharp.
4 Hizdahr's fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best.
5 It felt right somehow that Butters was trading on their fearsome reputation.
1 They're using that to gain political advantage out of a horrendous situation.
2 Earlier, we had read about the horrendous conditions of orphanages in Romania.
3 She was in Time City, in the middle of a horrendous mistake.
4 The horrendous details of the case are a gift to conspiracy theorists.
5 The 32-year-old Lynette Volschenk is the murdered victim of this horrendous crime.
1 The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
2 He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
3 At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
4 They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
5 In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
1 The words repeated in his mind, clear now, so clear-andso frightening .
2 It was an all-too-brief escape from the frightening reality of her situation.
3 A major criminal investigation is now under way into these frightening events.
4 For the first time for anybody going into that situation, it's frightening .
5 I've had a heart problem, so it was very difficult and frightening .
6 She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
7 He said it had the whole situation had been surreal and frightening .
8 The whole incident, which lasted about 30 minutes, was frightening , she said.
9 She needed his help, yet even at his weakest he was frightening .
10 She said having never seen a tornado before, the experience was frightening .
11 It applies to anything that is important, but difficult, important, but frightening .
12 Having never seen a tornado before, the experience was frightening , she said.
13 Too frightening . But we forget what we read when we were young.
14 The people of Guangdong, however, knew there was something frightening going on.
15 I succeeded in frightening him; he hurried to do what I ordered.
16 Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
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