How to use fright in a sentence

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• I got stage fright while doing a dance show for my school last year.From the entry stage fright
• What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.From the entry look
• My sudden fright was an unconscious response.From the entry unconscious
• His hands were clammy from fright.From the entry clammy
• I did some guest-speaking at the middle school last year, and I experienced some stage fright before and during my first presentation.From the entry stage fright
• I know not, unless it was to see how the people would stand affected; be it what it would, it caused me a terrible fright.From the entry be it what it would
• I don't know if this is incurable stage fright, or age fright!2024, Emily A. Rollie, Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities. From the entry age fright
• Her mother looked at me in fright and quickly scatted with her daughter back down the hall.2013, Cecilia Spiros, The Montoya Saga: Premonitions, page 57. From the entry scat
• It was at twelve o'clock at night, I got an awful fright.2009 March 20, “Sally Doran's Nellie Bike” (track 12), in The Mobile Phone, performed by Richie Kavanagh. From the entry nellie
• Far better than gillying for Northern Irish or Scots who wouldn't give ya a fright.2000, Declan Varley, chapter 4, in Nightmusic, Ireland: Declan Varley, →ISBN. From the entry gillie
• Close communion with God makes us immune to night fright and gives us courage in darkness.1997, Roger Campbell, Spurgeon's Daily Treasures in the Psalms. From the entry nightfright
• With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hob-house Room.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus. From the entry flatten
• A slithering back porch visitor and a kindly sign painter helped a young mother overcome snake fright.1992, Wisconsin Natural Resources, volumes 16-17. From the entry snake-fright
• The gorgoneion or "bodiless head of fright" antedates by many centuries the Gorgon with a woman's body.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry gorgoneion
• Boriloff frighted her half asleep as she was, by sayin' the R- r- revolution is corne!1976, Abraham Merritt, Hannes Bok, The fox woman and The blue pagoda and The black wheel, page 93. From the entry scraugh
• Turn back to the first of this chapter and read again about "job fright."1933, Robert Otis Pickard, Your Job: How to Get it and how to Keep it, page 64. From the entry job fright
• When Hennery saw the bo's'n crawl out of the water hole he nearly fainted with fright.1901, Julius Washington Muller, Starboard Lights: Salt Water Tales, page 87. From the entry bo's'n
• Shortly afterward, as the "beast" continued to be "frighted," he sold his horse and shay to a fellow-preacher, Rev.2022, Alice Morse Earle, Stage-coach and Tavern Days. From the entry frighting
• A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright.2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times. From the entry stalking
• Great-heartedness leads us to undertake great and arduous works in every kind of Virtue without taking fright at their magnitude.2012, Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry great-heartedness
• The animals roared in fright, lost in the jungular darkness.2010, Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, page 104. From the entry jungular
• In the images, set on an inky black background, his bald head is covered by his famously disconcerting "fright wig".2006 January 19, Arifa Akbar, “Warhol's final self-portraits reveal his darker side”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Jun 2014. From the entry fright wig
• In night fright, the child expresses fear about falling asleep.1987, Barbara Kuczen, Childhood stress, page 350. From the entry nightfright
• I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 18, in Uneasy Money. From the entry boneless
• You can't fright me with your scarebugs.1912, Israel Zangwill, The Next Religion: A Play in Three Acts, page 50. From the entry scarebug
• A resident was given a fright by their housekeeper who was standing outside the 9th floor of a building without safety measures in northwestern China.2021 November 29, “Housekeeper gives Chinese resident a fright after standing outside 9th floor window without safety measures”, in Yahoo!…. From the entry Zhongning
• Leaving your dog sitting in dirty water will get its ears acclimatized to the sound of running water and kill this water fright it has.2014, Joan Price, Do It Yourself Dog Grooming, page 4. From the entry waterfright
• Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?2005, C. Jürschik y P. García, Interview with Jonathan Boakes. From the entry errand-ghost
• Pinchot, wearing a long-haired fright wig, plays a guileless nut named Bobby McGee who has been struck by lightning and turned into a psychic.1989 November 3, Janet Maslin, “Film Review: Second Sight (1989)”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jun 2014. From the entry fright wig
• Glenn rushed back to her only to find that a ferrididdle had run across the bed and in its fright had leaped upon her head.1975, James Gay Jones, Appalachian Ghost Stories, and Other Tales, page 78. From the entry ferrididdle
• As a result everything was done that men in an acute stage of "job fright" could do to discredit the new system.1912, Business: The Magazine for Office Store and Factory. From the entry job fright
• Once fretting about momly things like education, health care, poor folks and breathing air with no detectable color or texture—girlie-man Democratic stuff—security moms have moved on to bigger frights.2010, Lois Duke Whitaker, Voting the Gender Gap. From the entry momly
• Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209. From the entry quebrada
• He was a very scared individual and to cover up his fright he would tell outlandish tales to make himself appear "better" and "bigger" in front of the other convicts.1987 February 1, Jeffrey L. Say, “Drop Him A Line”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 4. From the entry see through
• There is no colour line in love, and though a-quiver with ungovernable fright, for Ursula's sake black Woona went graphically through the final death contortions of the poisoned mangy pup.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry aquiver

Meaning of fright

1. noun A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
2. noun Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
3. verb To frighten.

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Questions about fright in a sentence

How do you use fright in a sentence?

Fright is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “I got stage fright while doing a dance show for my school last year.”

What is a short sentence with fright?

“Don't be fright.”

What does fright mean?

Fright means a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.