fearsome
Example Sentences
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These were the game’s most fearsome closers, like Troy Percival, Robb Nen and Brian Wilson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
This is the most fearsome repertoire in all of pop music, and Nilles supplied its heartbeat and muscle, and most of its nuance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
And that was considered the case even before he became the fearsome Manchester City striker he is today.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Ghosts, too, which have played so large and so fearsome a part in other lands, never appear on earth in any Greek story.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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