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Sentence Examples He took a couple steps forward and thrust out with his sword, hoping to intimidate them or scare them away. It's about using fear and xenophobia as a tool to scare people into voting for the Liberals at the next election. When someone opens the door it hits the door jam and sets off an alarm that will scare them away and wake you up. Grey-headed sparrows are relatively nervous birds and if you scare them away a few times they will go off and look elsewhere for a nest site. Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme? Ayako wasn't one to scare easily, and she knew full well they'd catch onto that. At 74, Browning has lived through more presidential campaigns than she cares to remember and she claims not to scare easily. This dog will scare easily and will most probably beat you to the hiding place if an intruder bursts into your home! Mr Mooring, who served with the Eighth Army and saw action at El-Alamein, does not scare easily. I really enjoy the scare from a great horror movie, but have to say it runs a close second place to a great comedy or romantic comedy! Even with an admittedly disturbing ring, a cell phone could never match the scare of a clown jumping out of a closet, brandishing an ice pick. Ivory's head snapped up to look him straight in the eyes, her face now a pale sheet of white from the sudden scare. In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again. The security personnel then resorted to aerial firing to scare away the rioters, which prompted the Taliban militia to fire back in retaliation. They are using their reactionist tactics to try and scare people away from real issues. Despite the scare, she's determined to rest up and get herself out to the village to visit our athletes. After the girl tried to leave, Jamilmira shot his gun into the air to scare her. Use yellow journalism to scare the public into demanding that legislators pass a law to fix the nonexistent problem. Legend has it that the lammergeier will sometimes dive at animals, even humans, trying to scare them into falling off the escarpment. She met no one along the way and only had one brief scare when she ran into a house cat, yet she made it to the library quietly unnoticed. Show More Sentences And to do so it must make the efficient allocation of scare resources its prime objective at all times. The current scare over migrants and refugees is just as racist and irrational. The kooky pair have been dating for less than a year, but Tom's recent health scare swiftly brought the two together. These kinds of horror stories might scare kids, but they're unlikely to scare worldly adults. It is used to hold thick doors open, crush particularly large spiders and scare witless those English students who have to read it. Mrs Smith fears the project will harm the environment and scare wildlife away. Poultry shops like this one in Triplicane are finding fewer takers these days due to the bird influenza scare. Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra. And each was a special customer, and he was determined to serve their needs and he would see if he couldn't scare something up. Thousands of mini-buses are likely to be recalled by manufacturers Mercedes-Benz after a crash in Greater Manchester triggered a safety scare. She has resumed official duties after 20 days of medical leave following a cancer scare. The recent scare over Scottish salmon highlighted the need for the highest standards in production. All it did was scare the moderate Republicans into become utter reactionaries. A major pollution scare was sparked off in York after dead fish were found floating in the River Foss. I only had the knife to scare him in case he got me and gave me a leathering. The move follows a scare on May 11, when authorities ordered workers to evacuate several federal buildings. A tourist caused a security scare when he deliberately left his bag of dirty washing on a plane which brought him home from Ibiza. Many of those who gave up beef following the BSE scare have gone back to eating organic beef. He says talking publicly about his own cancer scare helped him get through it. The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all. Show More Sentences For example, when we see that Emily owns a cat, is there any doubt it will jump out at someone for a cheap scare later on? In Germany, the food scare has sparked an about-face on agricultural policy. She figured that he was on the phone or watching television, and decided to jump in the room and maybe give him the scare of his life. The British anti-drink-driving campaigns try to scare you into complete abstinence. The couple's noisy row drew the attention of neighbors and local officials, who explained to them the news surrounding the food scare. I keep waiting for him to warn me off, to use his own crippling accident and this video to scare me straight. Megan immediately halted and leaned on the pole tip for support, gulping in air after the sudden scare. Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights. Whereas the British want to see children's faces light up with joy, those foreign johnnies prefer to scare the living daylights out of them. Whenever we see bats, we get quieter because they have an acute sense of hearing, and we don't want to scare them. There is a class of person who delights in trying to scare the pants off you with appalling tales of child-rearing horror. The word alone creates fear, and by now almost anything manages to scare a lot of Americans. Instilling a feeling of insecurity is the best way to scare your population into submission and frighten away potential investors. I fall face first into the water to the growls and scare a two-foot alligator resting on a lily pad. They are done to scare people and to frighten them, to make them anxious and worried. If the cow gets too close to the fence co-ordinates, the collar will make a noise, or give the cow an electric shock to scare it away. I realized I must look rather intimidating so I relaxed and laughed so as not to scare everyone further. I'd wanted it to scare him off, send him fleeing back to wherever he'd come from. But these are committed professionals who don't scare easily. After a worker called 911, Alfaro says the plant manager, Michael Leblanc, gathered up the workers to scare them straight. Show More Sentences But while his anti-corruption message has wide appeal, his unabashedly nationalist politics scare many traditional liberals. The look at Brenda Foster gave me was enough to scare any young child to death. Abetted by scare stories on television and the Internet, people make bad judgments about risk that can lead to excessive wariness of new corporate products such as vaccines. Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking. Yet the sheer size of the Asian juggernauts and the prospect of them indiscriminately swallowing global resources scare economic planners and consumers alike. She was wasting her time, trying to scare an already badly frightened man. With every corner she turned she had to fly past another guard, and with every door she opened another alarm would sound and scare her out of her wits. American moviemakers and studio executives have always been slower to respond to social unrest, perhaps out of fear that controversy will scare away audiences. The Tories were so keen to push ahead with the float that they failed to order a full inventory of the company's assets, fearing this would scare off investors. My mind was kind putting me at rest after it gave me the scare of my life. Which reminds me to mention a word of caution when managing cows around calving time, there is nothing like a good scare to make one realise the dangers of attack. When the game started 45 minutes later I got the scare of my life. The Turkish team had a major scare on their way here when their privately chartered plane hit an air pocket and briefly plummeted towards the ground. But mostly, I think the Democrats are cynically pushing this shutdown talk as a way to scare their base. During the Alar scare of 1989, for example, consumer concern about pesticide use in the apple industry sparked a demand for organic apples and apple juice. Georgina stepped in between the dingo and her baby sister just before their mother was able to scare the dingo away. In Greece, they sneak into homes to scare children, and in Scandinavia, the gnomes play pranks. Mrs. Deshales ordered an ambulance, which managed to scare off Wahlberg and his pals. There are stretches in dragnet Nation that are too obviously designed to scare, and parts feel paranoid. A Northampton company was reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority after it used scare tactics to sell anti-radiation mobile phone products. Show More Sentences The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty. The findings come in the wake of a health scare for the Queen, which saw her rushed to hospital with a bout of gastroenteritis. Preaching in such an environment would seem to be easy, and Willimon could claim success by following the advice not to scare the horses. Magellan and his men then tried to scare them off by burning some houses in Bulaia. As we have seen, it is not just the fact that they scare people. The Romans are reported to have used cucumbers to treat scorpion bites, bad eyesight, and to scare away mice. Many species thrash about violently when disturbed to scare away potential predators. Demonstrations by Chartists and Irish nationalists failed to attract widespread support, and the scare died down without any major disturbances. But by 1953, with McCarthyism and the second Red Scare in full swing, the FBI moved from surreptitious research to direct contact. There are many great scenes in the film, scenes that open up the backstory more, and scare the bejesus out of you. The animals are protected and people moving outside the settlements are required to have appropriate scare devices to ward off attacks. The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud. If spitting is supposed to scare the opponent, it fails miserably.... It's not only unhealthy and silly, it's schoolyard kid stuff. The real Opposition, the union movement, are again playing politics and seeking to scare Tasmanians with dangerous and false scaremongering. There is a feeling he will be allowed to leave for a fee in the region of PS8 million, which will scare off the majority of suitors. The British and French scientists believe they were trying to make themselves sound heavier to scare off the competition. Bryan got a shotgun and tried to scare off the wolves by firing into the air, but that strategy backfired. It might scare off people who are on the border who think, If they can't catch me I'm good to go,'' Hurd said. As for inclusions, chapter 1 employed far too many scare quotes around terms and concepts. So runs the latest nanny-state scare story peddled by the food hygiene industry. Show More Sentences I agree that it would be bad news if the grant were withdrawn totally but it is still a scare story. In turn, Stoke had to bring veteran Russell Hoult back from a loan at Notts County because of the Kirkland scare story. Sales of canned salmon appear unaffected by the recent scare story about Scottish farmed fish. Many of her fellow suffragettes were imprisoned and refused food as a scare tactic against the government. This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter. I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away. And there was a scare for Heskey when he needed treatment on a twisted knee after a challenge from Zech. Then on to an aeroboat swamp ride, a popular weekend activity for locals and chance to scare some swamp creatures. Governments whistle in the dark to scare off the demons as they come in range of the graveyard. Dengue scare is certainly there because when the flood will recede, it will leave water pockets behind. The speech began as an amalgam of scare tactics and bipartisan appeal. Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare the pants off Americans and just about everyone else. The story I've always heard, as a Teslaphile, says that the concept was invented by Thomas Edison to scare people away from alternating current. Some are now raising a Red scare and even the spectre of Militant Tendency, which hasn't existed for over 20 years. He is inordinately fond of the scare quote, a sign that he is not really sure of what he's talking about. An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket. Adrian Richards, 43, took the knife out in Aberdare to scare the boy racer who had driven at his 13-year-old son days earlier. And good spots such as the Ruban Bleu can still scare up clinkable drinks for deserving people. Having to deal with a bomb scare on his first day was a real baptism of fire for John. Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League. Show More Sentences The Liberal vote collapsed, much of it coalescing to the Conservatives as a result of the scare around the forged Zinoviev Letter. Indeed, there is a streak of Reaganomics that believes the only way to motivate American workers is to scare them straight with unemployment charts. Have you heard the recent scare story about broken glass in baby food? The scare quotes, alas, are necessary, for much of what is meant to have the effect of education winds up being decidedly uneducational, or educational in the wrong way. Acoustic harassment devices and acoustic deterrent devices used by aquaculture facilities to scare away marine mammals emit loud and noxious underwater sounds. Fireworks were invented in ancient China in the 7th century to scare away evil spirits, as a natural extension of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China of gunpowder. I would be interested to know what evidence he has, if any, to substantiate this claim or is it just another scare story to try and claw back the Liberal vote? Swedish researchers created a scare about acrylamides several years ago. Lila's uncle found out he was hanging around and tried to scare him away, but Spence was daresome and he flirted openly with her, slowing down her work. Another boat, with an outboard motor, drove back and forwards just behind the scare line to add to the disturbance and to pass instructions between boats. The scare over anthrax infection in the US has drawn attention to the vulnerability of homes and businesses to chemical and bacteriological attack. Yikes Daryl Hannah, that make-up could scare small children. The pair didn't make it away with much cash, according to the Los Angeles Times, because the dog seemed to scare off the thieves with its ferocious barking. The Delhi International Airport Ltd has awarded the contract to scare off birds to housekeeping specialists, Trendsetter, after the contract with the previous vendor expired. But the Welsh Premiership leaders had to survive a scare after Cross Keys went ahead courtesy of a try by winger Nathan Trowbridge and a James Leadbeater penalty. Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide. Apparently, that was all it took to scare the bejabbers outta the clerk. I use the scare quotes to emphasize, pace Foucault and Derrida, the impossibilities and potentialities of the moment of meaning at the site of reading. Despite my vigilant nature watch, sadly the reticent boa constrictor had better things to do than scare the bejesus out of a bunch of gawping tourists. Police believe a party popper may be behind a bomb scare west of Brisbane. Show More Sentences The two zombielike defences on show are enough to scare any manager. He has published an absurd scare story about nanotechnology. But just as great power comes with great responsibility, great medical knowledge comes with great opportunities to scare the pants off yourself on a regular basis. When the war with France had commenced, Britain had initially brought Hessian and Hanoverian troops to defend Britain from a feared invasion scare. Or did the more-colorful males scare off would-be philanderers? In the Twin Cities and beyond, Halloween lovers are working hard to scare the pants off you, make you dance till you drop and show you an all-around Spooktacular time. And this should scare the bejabbers out of plan participants. Along with the Red Scare and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg the United States ran open campaigns to eliminate communism in the United States. Jewish-Americans during the Red Scare, African-Americans during the civil rights movement and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind. Our heroes must defeat the robotic Scare Bears guarding the pilfered plushies, return them to their rightful owners, and teach kids that sharing is the right way. Frankenstein is one of my fasciations in horror and science fiction that tickled my interest watching those late night movies on Scare theater as a kid. Examples from Classical Literature Hello, eddo, we ran away just to scare you, and we'll do it again if we please! A Gatling gun, pointed at the universe, seemed to promise the enemy a sharp reception if a scare ever came. This would always scare me so that I would bury my head in the covers and shake. That's it, but what has that to do with the scare at the tunnel and the scamping? It had been conditioned to scare easily, where blueskins might be involved. The war scare is having an excellent effect on Miltoun's candidature. You may scare them into cantering down into the midst of the Boers! What's any of them little haythen been coin' to scare ye, missy? Its pages are a maze of wayward asseveration decorated with ironic initial capitals and scare quotes. I have curbed and repressed myself not to scare you by precipitancy. Afraid of nothin', and smilin' at what might dast to scare her. Didn't he throw a gun on yez once an' scare the daylights out of yez? But it is really just hunters, so the tiger rolls in the mud and the aye-aye puts moss on him to scare them off. Your red hair would scare away the sabre-toothed tiger himself! There must be more back of this than merely to scare Gennaro. They don't need shadow-blinds like high-strung thoroughbreds for fear their adumbrations will scare them. The astounded guard burst into laughter at their absurd scare. Shanghai, as I write this, is just recovering from a bubonic plague scare. He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows. With Mr. Morris at the front end of that log, there's no hope of scare. Show More Sentences Not just because I was frightened, it wasn't so simple as a scare. The front page was all about a flying saucer scare in Marin County. Efter thet, the heads and offals 'u'd scare the fish to Fundy. In a brilliant chapter devoted to the Rosicrucian scare of 1623-24 in Paris, Kahn details the actions of the teemaged Etienne Chaume, who seems to have originated the affair. My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an' I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman. It may scare 'em to see your grand Throne Room, an' p'raps we'd better go into the back yard, Ozma, where the cabbages grow an' the chickens are playing. That the Greens would seek to scare Tasmanians and damage our reputation in an attempt to score a cheap political point is as reprehensive as it is unsurprising. There was quite a scare all around the Arab states of the Persian Gulf this month as the word went out that Iranian watermelons had been poisoned. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of scare? Words that rhyme with scare What is the past tense of scare? What is the plural of scare? What is the adverb for scare? What is the adjective for scare? What is the noun for scare? Translations for scare Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words scarcity scarcities scarcest scarcer scarceness scarcely scarecrow scarecrows scared scared stiff scaredy-cat scaredy-cats 5-letter Words Starting With s sc sca scar