How to Use frightened in a Sentence

frightened

adjective

• Above me a stranger’s head, dangling like a frightened moon.
  — Rita Dove, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
• Both does and bucks will issue a brief snort when alarmed or frightened.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• In the whirlwind, so many are feeling frightened, weary, and alone.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• The interpreter who was in the room was too frightened to talk, someone close to her told me.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Always one to come when called, this dog seemed frightened and flustered.
  — Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Here, the cat feels frightened and isolated from living so close to threat.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• But the elderly Black man who answered was too frightened to let them in.
  — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Is this someone who can’t feel, or who is frightened of feeling too much?
  — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• But the rush of frightened students pouring out of Snyder Hall revealed the grim truth.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• Christine Vance had also grown frightened, but not to the same extent, Jara said.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• After the rescue, Spike consoled the frightened woman, who can be seen in the video wearing a KN95 mask.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• For instance, dogs that are frightened may attempt to flee, fight, fret and fidget, or freeze.
  — Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• The department said that the frightened dog had gone over at least one waterfall.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2023
• After about 10 seconds of struggling, the frightened cub was free.
  — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
• At 43, Moayed is a million miles from the fraught reality of that frightened child.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• The frightened children, too young to tie their own shoelaces, were hustled into strangers’ homes on the tidy block as police sirens wailed.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• But amid the foreignness of America, the soldiers were just Afghans like him, lost and frightened.
  — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• Krause, a deputy fire marshal for the state of Oregon, crouched down to get a closer look and saw a frightened puppy hiding.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
• The thieves, those frightened and agitated boys, want more.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The smoke was visible at the checkpoint, but the soldiers, who seemed frightened, shouted at him to stay back and not come any closer.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The deputies on horseback, chasing frightened men, women and children back across the steel-arched structure.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• In his love life Napoleon is depicted as a clumsy, frightened and timid little boy.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Hundreds of frightened people were standing under the bridge, waiting to cross while their city burned in the background.
  — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the stand of trees, wounded and frightened Russians were probably crying out.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The video on Instagram shows the visibly frightened cub looking up at the rescuer and the rope and curling into a tighter ball in the corner.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 23 Apr. 2024
• The new trailer for Season 3 of You shows a frightened Joe Goldberg and what seems to be frightening him the most (at first) is fatherhood.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 8 Feb. 2023
• Asked to describe their feelings, the top answers were: anger, frightened, concerned and hopeful.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• Diesel, then a malnourished and frightened stray, approached Sgt.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• In Season 1, Jackie wasn't the most pleasant person to be around following a plane crash that stranded a bunch of frightened teenage girls.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
• As Slowik starts to reveal his intentions for the evening, the frightened guests come to realize that most of them may have been invited for all the wrong reasons.
  — Joy Ashford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024