How to Use frighten in a Sentence

frighten

verb

• The child was badly frightened by the mask.
• The story really frightened me.
• That’s just frightening how much you guys have planned out that far in advance.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2019
• Use caution around animals Lights and noise may frighten pets.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
• Amelia, frightened by her son’s behavior, is forced to medicate him.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• But some humans seem to be frightened of animals in general.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• Half is a huge chunk of the population, and one that’s sure to frighten at least as many of us as supposedly have it.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2019
• That erratic behavior, according to the company, will frighten the rest of the flock and force the birds to leave the area.
  — oregonlive.com, 5 June 2019
• Or try inflatable scarecrows, which move sporadically to frighten the birds, says Owen.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2024
• However, the trail’s reputation for eccentrics, Eberhart says, is not something that should frighten away first-timers.
  — Eric Barton, Outside Online, 10 July 2019
• To the very end, even with a noose around his neck, Francesco believed that his American neighbors only meant to frighten him, to teach his family a lesson.
  — Frank Viviano, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Fast-forward 15 years later, and Cali and Noelle are thoroughly frightening the world in Peele's Us.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2019
• But Fain pushed back on that argument and said the company was trying to intimidate and frighten workers even as the union had been asking for weeks to meet with Tavares.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2024
• Snakes are also associated with witchcraft because sorcerers use them to perform black magic to frighten or injure an enemy.
  — Maurice Oniang'o, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
• The shelters are quickly approaching their largest intake of the year — July 5, the date after fireworks can frighten dogs into running from home due to anxiety.
  — Claire Rafford, azcentral, 2 July 2019
• The internal drama may frighten away investors, potentially leading to a lower valuation.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
• The agents turned on their lights briefly, which frightened the thief.
  — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• We are drawn to the sea and frightened by it, and always have been.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• But that’s part of the process — being frightened — for all of us.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• The woman was frightened and allowed Hunter to get in the back seat.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2019
• Among the first were the theme parks which had failed to frighten Disney and a string of hotels.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Their firearms can be concealed to not scare those who are frightened by the sight of guns.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The man started stabbing the ground near the boy’s feet in an effort to frighten him.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
• But nothing could move Ahmed; there was a fury in him that frightened her.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The leaflets frightened some students, and scared some of their parents.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Most people tend to avoid things that scare or frighten them.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• The Ducks success last season had to frighten the rest of the conference.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
• One day, the lion king was frightened by a roaring noise in the forest.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• Still, some Black voters could make a third choice that should frighten Democrats: to not vote at all.
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
• Lock yourself in the closet, jog, complain to your spouse, have a beer, but don’t frighten the kids.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024