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How to use fearsome in a sentence

28 example sentences · adjective

Fearsome means frightening, especially in appearance. Example: “The warriors faced a fearsome enemy.”

Examples of fearsome by meaning

adjectiveFrightening, especially in appearance.

  • The warriors faced a fearsome enemy.
  • She gave him a fearsome glare.
  • The dire wolf, Aenocyon dirus, which was the inspiration for the fearsome canine featured in the HBO TV series “Game of Thrones,” was a top predator that once roamed North America. (HBO shares parent company Warner Bros.2025 April 7, Katie Hunt, “Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2025

More sentences with fearsome

  • In the dark, the teddy bear took on the appearance of a fearsome monster.From the entry take on
  • Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.From the entry crescendo
  • Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.From the entry crescendo
  • This fearsome modded PC is coming with us to Epic.LAN for the Hallowe’ekend.2025 October 24, Emily Haylock, “A Spine-Tingling Hallowe’en PC: TechForge Occult”, in Overclockers UK, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire…. From the entry Hallowe'ekend
  • He is not afraid to use the body, and his play in the corners is often fearsome.2017, Stan Fischler, Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Players. From the entry backliner
  • One of the most fearsome creatures of Malay folklore is the pontianak.2009, Andrew Hock-Soon Ng, “"Death and the Maide": The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture”, in John Edgar Browning, Caroline…. From the entry pontianak
  • Zeetha is the lost princess of a lost city, and a fearsome swordmistress.2009, Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne & the Clockwork Princess: A Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance & Mad Science (Girl…. From the entry swordmistress
  • You will find that you share the caves with several fearsome, fangsome, and famished monsters.1990, Dan McGirt, Royal Chaos, page 184. From the entry fangsome
  • The poor beggars think that there is something fearsome in this direction, and therefore they avoid it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Curupuri
  • Winter grew fearsome, forcing the couple to stick close to the cave with nothing but menial chores to occupy their time.2012, George Groves Jr, Eden... Closed. From the entry snowwoman
  • Just who is and isn’t on London’s glittering guest list this summer would bewilder even the most fearsome bomber-jacketed bouncer.2012 May 24, Tom Peck, “VIP treatment: Life is golden in the Olympic fast lane”, in The Independent, number 7994, page 14. From the entry bomber-jacketed
  • The roosters would look awesome, their beaks fearsome weapons.2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108. From the entry as it is
  • The Canada West Foundation dismisses these concerns as "political scarecrows"; fearsome at first glance but irrelevant on closer examination.1983, Saskatchewan Law Review, volume 48, Saskatoon, Sask.: College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, →OCLC, page 114. From the entry scarecrow
  • Benedict Cumberbatch's mailed-in performance as the disinterested wyrm is a bit disappointing and far from the fearsome foe found in the original book.2022 August 15, Izsak Barnette, “The Middle Earth Masterpieces: Ranking the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Films”, in Tilt Magazine. From the entry mailed-in
  • They'd order lawbreakers put to death in fearsome ritualized killings that took place in a heiau, accompanied by beating drums and chants.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, page xix. From the entry heiau
  • And to Lyn Feeney, for help in preparing the manuscript and for enduring all my temper tantra over that fearsome obstacle course, Microsoft Word.2005, David H[unter] Hubel, Torsten N[ils] Wiesel, “Acknowledgments”, in Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year…. From the entry temper tantra
  • Finally, a man approaches her — an uncommonly fat, clownish-looking man, with a bulbous nose, furzy white hair, and fearsome great eyebrows like crushed mice.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 725. From the entry furzy
  • However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of…. From the entry flogging
  • The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs.1986, Nature Canada, volumes 15-17, unnumbered page. From the entry ophiophobic
  • He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.1983, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry Bruno
  • Numerous triumphs in production racing confirmed that the Jota was not a bike to be messed with and it soon gained a fearsome reputation as a mean roadburner.2007, Mark Holmes, Ultimate Motorcycles: The Most Exotic & Exclusive Bikes on Earth. From the entry roadburner
  • Bid the women stoke the fire, for we'll have company at breakfast—a fairsome brace, and a fearsome face, whose foul fit should give him monstrous appetite!2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood. From the entry fairsome
  • At Cêo-Rêo, not far from Buon Choah, are located the villages of those enigmatic personages, the Sadets, of Fire and Water, whose fearsome reputation is widespread throughout Indo-China.1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland, published 2003, page 121. From the entry sadet
  • Now I’m sure our Patty, being of proper common-sense and sound judgment, wouldn’t put the Elliott family to such inconvenience,—for moving is a large and fearsome proposition.1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 17. From the entry common-sense
  • This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre…. From the entry instinct

Meaning of fearsome

  1. adjective Frightening, especially in appearance.
  2. adjective Fearful, frightened.

Full definition of fearsome

Questions about fearsome in a sentence

How do you use fearsome in a sentence?
Fearsome is used as an adjective. For example: “The warriors faced a fearsome enemy.”
What is a short sentence with fearsome?
“She gave him a fearsome glare.”
What does fearsome mean?
Fearsome means frightening, especially in appearance.

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