frighten
Example Sentences
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The risk of similar consequences might be enough to frighten off many providers.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
But it does hint strongly at extraterrestrial visitors being revealed to humankind with a tagline: "If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?"
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
Sanctions still hurt the targeted country, but they no longer frighten the market, especially if loosely enforced.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
That is what cinema is all about, an indefinable presence, faces full of expression, voices that cannot be easily replicated, eyes that channel energy that can move and frighten and surprise us.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
“You’re not nervous, are you? Did that story frighten you?”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
