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How to use fearful in a sentence

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People are more fearful about shouting at people, telling them to do a job properly, clipping them round the ear.
Government officials, knowing that the findings would likely be negative and fearful that they would leak, blocked the effort.
Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful.
Both Harry and Dolly came to sit with us, not frightened, you understand, simply lending us their moral support in case we were fearful.
They are skittish and fearful of most people and talk to no one but each other.
He was weightless, bodiless, free of pain, yet somehow fearful of the possibilities that lay ahead.
I remember a man ill at ease with his height and fearful that his profound musical abilities were undervalued.
The Spaniards grew fearful, uneasy and their discontent soon turned to open mutiny.
The side effects of sedatives and calming drugs like Prozac used for destructive, anxious and fearful pets make animals sleepy or lethargic.
Some quaint and furtive figures slid silently along the walls with a fearful air.
Police said the woman, too terrified to be named, was shocked and fearful of reprisals but otherwise unharmed.
They are dull, slow, sober and fearful characters with a weak pulse and a cowardly, slothful disposition.
Some firms are unsure of which systems to install and are fearful of getting it wrong.
She was very distressed and told me the family had upped and gone to England and she was very fearful for the safety of the two children.
Just as they did this all of the horses let out a fearful neigh, and took off running.
It was delicious wine, though Geneva only drank water for she was fearful the strong liquid would upset her stomach, or perhaps hurt the baby.
A father of two has broken his silence after keeping his sighting of a ghost 15 years ago at Woodville Halls Theatre a fearful secret.
For I was both, angry at the constable for accepting the bribe, and fearful of what my dear step-brother had planned.
It is true that the sight of Graham wielding a vacuum cleaner at full speed does have something of the fearful about it.
There I was sitting in my chair, jittery with adrenaline and close to peeing my pants, fearful of the imposing figure in the center of the room.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Not as weak-willed blunderers have we undertaken the fearful risk of this war.
He has a pug nose and wears giglamps, and I've a suspicion that he's a fearful dude.
He resorts to his tom-tom, by which he hopes to frighten away the fearful monster.
The excitement of the varletry in the square, they say, was fearful to hear.
It is a fearful crisis with him, and his mind wavers, as if presentient of his approaching doom.
The Dayak dogs are fearful cowards, and I was told that they run away at the sight of a wild pig.
Joyner looked at Lancedale in angry surprise, which gradually became fearful suspicion.
And then he is fearful, as tho he were there without the permission of the police.
Mr. Pike cursed him with fearful, unrepeatable words, and again demanded what he was doing there.
The bullet struck nappa Bill about the middle of the wrist, and with a fearful oath he allowed his knife to drop on the floor.
It struck a wheel horse of one of the howitzers, burst, and made fearful havoc.
The result was one of those quick India-rubber scuffles fearful to behold but delightful to human nature in its polliwog state.
For that it was a prognostic of some fearful calamity, no one thought of doubting.
Have we rightly comprehended the fearful import of those words, the africanization of the South?
Within a few minutes began to have fearful pains in stomach, followed by cramps.
Nevertheless he gave Jack another cut that made him jounce at a fearful rate up to the back veranda.
In the late summer of 1772 a fearful hurricane swept over the Leeward Islands.
The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled.
Frank's heart was beating like a triphammer and his nerves were at a fearful tension.
The only devil in this story is the devil of fearful ignorance and misbelief in Brother Martin.
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