Frightful has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It was frightful when my car skidded on the ice. | |
| 2. | I was filled with frightful sorrow for her. | |
| 3. | Gold gives an air of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. | |
| 4. | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. | |
| 5. | The high percentage of oxygen allows insects to grow to frightful sizes. | |
| 6. | One day the stepmother had given the girl a frightful beating, and then threatened to kill her outright. | |
| 7. | This morning the weather is frightful. | |
| 8. | The creaking of the masts; the straining and groaning of bulkheads, as the ship labored in the weltering sea, were frightful. | |
| 9. | He came into a spacious outer court, and what he saw was enough to freeze him with horror. A frightful silence reigned over all; the image of death was everywhere, and there was nothing to be seen but what seemed to be the outstretched bodies of dead men and animals. | |
| 10. | A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins. |