I boast not when I say that, given occasion, No penalty affrights me.
He thrust from him Prelates, boyars, and Patriarch; in vain Prostrate they fall; the splendour of the throne Affrights him.
Tempt me with such affrights no more, Lest what I made I uncreate; Let fools thy mystic form adore, I know thee in thy mortal state.
Hide not thy poyson with such sugred words, Lay not thy hands on me: forbeare I say, Their touchaffrights me as a Serpents sting.
That affrights me more, when I see a beast in likeness of a man.
Each thing affrights me, I do fear, Ah pardon me my fear, I doubt a man is hid within The clothes that thou dost wear.
He is now resolved again to take his stand on this, his efforts becoming the more violent the more the sight of the ruin wrought by his own work affrights him.
And yet “in many instances he applies to this Natural Law what he says elsewhere of the Law of Moses; it too affrights us, increases sin, kills, and stands opposed to the Gospel.
Some sodaine feare affrights you; whats the cause?
He could like the gray hairs of popery, did not some dotages there stagger him: he would come to us sooner, but our new nameaffrights him.
Your mere sour lookaffrights him, and makes him doubt his cashiering.
Your meer sour look affrights him, and makes him doubt his casheering.
Ever bear this in mind, that it is not Christ Who affrights you, but Satan; believe this as though God Himself were speaking.
Upon which St. Sidonius cried out, “What is more wonderful than a single reprimand, which both affrights a sinner into compunction, and makes him love his censor!
A loud thunder now affrights us; how then shall we stand at the sound of the last trumpet, louder than any thunder, summoning the dead to rise!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affrights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
