Sentence examples for fright from high-quality English sources.

• Milan also took fright, losing 1.8%.

• All three had gasped with fright more than once.

• Retail sales figures for January will give the Treasury a fright.

• The fright betrayed a weight of feeling that was a surprise to her.

• After the first surprise and fright were over they laughed at him again.

• The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream.

• Now, with his head upon the woman's shoulder, he moaned and wept with pain and fright.

• Master, be wise; and if you give it her, The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.

Use fright in a sentence.

• If the celebrities thought the dance floor was scary before, they are in for an even bigger fright tonight!

• “Upon my word, what a fright you are in of Alyona Ivanovna,” gabbled the huckster’s wife, a lively little woman.

• Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

• Theoretically, the classically conditioned signs of fright in response to the initially neutral signal have a motivating function.

• Coupled with his fright, this establishes an atmosphere of apprehension, as Lennie’s actions have been so severe that there must be some consequences for them.

• “Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys.”

• Dave Kinghan is the writer of Costume Drama, one of 6 brand new Fright Shorts comedies for Halloween made by BBC Writersroom, BBC Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen for BBC iPlayer.

• William, having encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line, took fright when he found war impending but was not able to halt the implementation of the mobilization measures that he…

fright sentence examples

• Airlines look like they face a horrific year, as business travel is axed ferociously, leisure travellers take fright, their insurers remove cover for travel disruption, and governments impose bans.

• It was very difficult because we had a collapse of our sales, a huge fright, a fear for the future,” Casale Del Giglio owner Antonio Santarelli said, standing among wooden barrels of wine stored in the winery's cellar.

• This was not a result borne of Irish indiscipline or stage fright, but of a truly stunning Japanese performance in front of a cacophonous crowd that lifted their side with a stunning noise that greeted every metre gained, tackle made and turnover won.

• The millions included members of the Islamic Republic’s own elite, the sons and daughters of politicians and judges, and they marched with defiant slogans near Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s headquarters in Tehran, giving the the system’s guardians the fright of their life.