A fog was gathering, thicker than the mountain ones he had known, thick and somehow frightening.

The screaming stopped, abruptly, as if a switch had been flipped, leaving a silence that was somehow frightening.

It was somehow frightening to think they might know his name.

Her blank, guarded look and the rocking motion were somehow frightening to see.

It was not only claustrophobic, but somehow frightening and stifling.

It was somehow a little frightening to look upon that river.

It was at once exciting and somehow frightening.

A bus roared past the group, and Tony choked on a powerful, unfamiliar, somehow frightening smell.

He turned to her, fierce, protective and somehow frightening in the shadows.

Around him the alien, murky woods were somehow not frightening, just strange.