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.