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"Fearful" in a Sentence (19 examples)
A fearful thought entered my mind.
What a fearful waste of money!
That was a fearful scene.
The fearful noise astonished anyone coming for the first time.
To make matters worse, there were signs of a fearful storm.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long, by so many, to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
We promised, in our last article, to illustrate the formidable powers of the white shark, by relating a fearful struggle between this animal and a human being.
The poor widow with her two young children - herself an orphan - struggled bravely for a while against the fearful tide of adversity.
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
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Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me, But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
In the later Hebrew midrash Lilith is presented as the woman who knows how to recite the fearful name of God to work calamity; that this little girl cries out the fearful name of the sun god and thereby causes an earthquake would indicate that this girl is linked in the structure of the myth with Lilith.
a fearful boy
But every day after dinner, for an hour, we were all together, and then the Favourite and the rest of the Royal Hareem competed who should most beguile the leisure of the Serene Haroun reposing from the cares of State — which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.
kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords, And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs, When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe Theſe are the men that al the world admires,
Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]
“He is fearful handsome, as you know,” she said remorsefully, “you cannot imagine, Georgiana, the joy when I first fell in love with him.”
“It's a fearful strong charm needs dragon's blood,” he said plaintively.
His Dardanelles expedition gave the Turk a fearful long start.
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