• Ms Davies told the inquest she became frightened a month before she was due to deliver because the active baby that had been kicking and punching inside her had stopped moving.

    BBC: England

  • The strategic chatter has frightened a lot of Israelis.

    ECONOMIST: Israel v Iran

  • Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a frightened fellow in a bright-blue suit, a nerd who sells merchandise out of a San Fernando Valley warehouse and stammers his way through the simplest encounters.

    NEWYORKER: Punch-Drunk Love

  • That was the last time I saw him, the day he came for his money, and he had a dark, set look to his eyes that frightened me a little.

    NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

  • At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

    BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

  • Vivian had never seen her father cry, and it frightened her a bit.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • But to really be frightened in a movie, to watch a film and really be involved and scared actually requires some skill.

    FORBES: Monster Mash: A Conversation With Filmmaker And Author John Landis

  • But the woman sounded frightened in a way that set her apart from the other women, who were simply nervous during their interviews.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.

    NEWYORKER: Tyson

  • For the economy as a whole, lots of cash in frightened hands is a liquidity trap.

    FORBES

  • He claims this was a frightened and bewildered electorate who had believed Labour's negative campaign that there was a less painful way to overcome the country's economic ills.

    BBC: Vote 2011: Lib Dem gloom in Clegg's Sheffield powerbase

  • Helicopters and rescue vehicles gave chase while millions held their breath because they thought a 6-year-old boy might be sailing through the skies, cold, frightened and just a gust of wind from falling.

    NPR: A Boy, A Balloon And A Lot Of Hot Air

  • One row a couple of years ago grew so heated that a frightened secretary, sitting outside Mr Nasser's office, summoned security.

    ECONOMIST: The shake-up at Ford

  • "I think she was fearless but she knew what it was like to be frightened, " a toughness she got from her upbringing, Moorehead says.

    NPR: Martha Gellhorn: 'A Twentieth Century Life'

  • Roosevelt told a frightened, destitute nation that unregulated greed is neither good policy nor good ethics, and that if we don't hang together, we'll hang separately.

    CNN: Commentary: Is Obama overexposed?

  • The actual Edie was a stick, not much more substantial than Twiggy (though sexier), with haunted, kohl-shadowed peepers and a hanging lower lip that made her look like a frightened animal.

    NEWYORKER: Double Lives

  • They seemed a little frightened too of what they had done and where it might lead.

    NPR: Waiting for News About Jill Carroll

  • Still, the prospect frightened Eddie Malone, a resident of Lindenhurst on Long Island whose house has been under renovation since Sandy's flooding wiped out his first floor.

    WSJ: Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls

  • Europeans who settle in the United States are at once frightened and exhilarated by a place where people may yearn for a life free of risk (inside gated communities, for example) but know in their hearts they can never get it.

    ECONOMIST: America, Europe and the management of danger: A hazardous comparison | The

  • Fyodorov felt a little frightened.

    NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

  • Politicians rubbished frightened residents' claims that a large cat screamed and growled at them in the Neath Forest five years ago.

    BBC: Catalogue of Wales' weird cats

  • In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.

    WSJ: Actor Hamish Linklater evolves into playwright

  • An ex-girlfriend testified before he was sentenced that he had shown her a gun and frightened her enough to call the police.

    NPR: Man Jailed As Slain DA Investigation Continues

  • Four years ago, his support for school vouchers frightened voters, who suspected a right-wing plot to drain money from the public schools.

    ECONOMIST: Listening Jeb Bush

  • With the unemployment rate not looking to improve anytime soon and the economy stuck in neutral, there are a lot of frightened citizens.

    FORBES

  • Young people are disillusioned, frightened, and broke- a bad combination.

    FORBES: The Democrats Have A Big Branding Problem, As Does Obama

  • This often makes us think that the opposition is a little bit frightened of playing against us and don't really fancy it - which in turn makes us feel good about ourselves.

    BBC: Bolton captain

  • And most important of all, in terms of the health of British public life, a global audience witnessed a small cross-party group of Britain's elected representatives doing what they should have been doing for the last 30 years: holding the press, and Murdoch in particular, accountable for their actions rather than scurrying away like a bunch of frightened rabbits in the glare of News Corp.

    CNN: British politicians rightly close the door to Murdoch

  • "Maybe clubs are frightened to give home grown talent a chance, " he said.

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