Example Sentences

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But on Friday night, the booms and blasts of celebratory fireworks appear to have frightened them away.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2025

The deaths of Asra and Amaal have frightened and devastated Saudi women in Australia.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2022

Comments on other social media posts about the event noted that the group could have frightened away voters wary of engaging, drawn people planning to report the group’s activities or simply witnessed lost passers-by.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

The economic devastation and behavioral impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak have frightened all of us.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2022

Then her claws, her jaws, her very strangeness might have frightened him into backing away.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville