Fearfully

//ˈfɪɹfəli//

"Fearfully" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This club is fearfully dull. The dance floor is empty and the smoking patio is packed.

It was her fearfully pale complexion that caught his eye.

We came fearfully close to the Sun's orbit because we launched from the wrong side of Mercury.

At last the boat came alongside the ship, and now the queen saw that it was a stone boat, out of which there came up on board the ship a fearfully ugly witch.

It's perfectly appalling to think of being twenty, Marilla. It sounds so fearfully old and grown up.

"Where are you?" I asked fearfully.

In spite of all, however, in every campaign, after each lost battle, and even after those which were won, the number of deserters was fearfully great.

The cat meowed fearfully.

I stepped fearfully into the pitch-dark cave.

He's a fearfully good striker.

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Remember, when a horse is on its side the kicking-strap is useless, and the breechen nearly so, to prevent the swing of its hind legs; your aim is to get it away from the steps or wheel-plate of the trap, which, in its struggles, may cut its legs fearfully.

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