frighteningly
Example Sentences
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"The machines are amazing pieces of engineering and it came frighteningly close to disappearing completely."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Yet he is frighteningly convincing in another extreme role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The patchwork system that supplies blood and blood products to operating rooms, delivery suites, and ERs like mine can be frighteningly brittle.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
The result will be an art form emptied of talent, emptied of feeling and frighteningly unhuman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
They still looked frighteningly close; he took a better grip on the vine and loosed one foot to search for a wider crack.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
