frighten

[ˈfraɪtn]

Definition:
1. Cause fear in.
2. To make someone suddenly feel afraid.
3. Drive out by frightening.

Use 'frighten' in a sentence:

1. He knew that Soli was trying to frighten him, so he smiled to hide his fear.
2. Frighten She was frightened to look down from the top of the tall building.
3. Don't let fitness frighten you!
4. It's frightening to think it could happen again.
5. Similarly, the need to learn a new language and customs may excite one person and frighten another.
6. I didn't want to frighten the child.
7. Frighten me to jump!
8. He would never frighten anyone or cause them any harm.
9. Dare not boast of good, frighten posterity never boast become don't talk.
10. Most children are frightened by the sight of blood.
11. He keeps them secret so that other boys won't find their holes and frighten them.
12. Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
13. He's not frightened of getting his hands dirty.
14. I could point at all those layoff statistics. Or I could frighten you by bringing up the specter of your job going overseas.
15. I wasn't frightened by what he said ─ it was all bluster.
16. There's something about this place that frightens me.
17. "I frighten them to death," she says.
18. The young prince said, "all this shall not frighten me. I will go and see this Briar Rose."
19. Cockroaches are the insects that frighten me most.
20. New behaviors can frighten the people observing them, so introduce them slowly.
21. You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?
22. His oddness frightened her.
23. All this was just designed to frighten me and keep me in line.
24. This can frighten criminals away if they realize there's a number stamped on it.
25. Survivors waited for the rescue boats, dazed and frightened.
26. She knew what to ask and how to ask it in a way that didn't frighten me.
27. She doesn't frighten easily.
28. And they often used a spear to frighten sparrows.
29. An aggressive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute.
30. What are you frightened of?
31. Yet aftershocks frighten residents and complicate rescue efforts.
32. Don't try to frighten us with your technological worries.
33. The whole car shuddered with an almost frightening surge of power.
34. I want to frighten him.
35. He sounded frightened.
36. It is meant to frighten off evil spirits.
37. Fairground rides are intended to frighten the life out of you.
38. And I defy you to hurt him when I am by, and I defy you to frighten me!
39. Don't be frightened.
40. Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
41. She was frightened that the glass would break.
42. Though badly frightened, she remained outwardly composed.
43. He brought out a gun and frightened them off.
44. She's not easily frightened.
45. I was frightened by the noise.
46. I'm frightened of walking home alone in the dark.
47. The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.
48. She spoke quietly to still the frightened child.
49. Everyone was frightened by the strange sequence of events.
50. She was frightened that the plane would crash.
51. I agreed, but only because I was frightened.
52. Underneath her cool exterior she was really very frightened.
53. She crouched in the dark, too frightened to reveal herself.
54. I'm too frightened to ask him now.
55. Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you.