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Attack helicopters rattling low over the desert were especially terrifying, criss-crossing over the city and firing rockets into the centre.
People came from Norway on an arduous, and in some cases terrifying, voyage, vividly described here.
To a country boy only seven years old it is terrifying, but Jack is determined his handicap is not going to hinder him.
The rest of the LP is equally bizarre, wonderful and terrifying, spanning a range of music way beyond any classification.
But what really brings it to life is its gallery of outlandish, oddball and downright terrifying characters and creatures.
The power of the Puritan clergy was maintained by their terrifying hellfire sermons.
The British Airways first officer subjected his 34-year-old victim to a terrifying assault after tricking his way into her hotel room in Norway.
The thesis defense is probably just like a more terrifying, more stringent form of orals.
As a naturally occurring disease smallpox is potent and as a weapon of biological warfare it is terrifying.
His cartooning never condescends to its subject, even when he's drawing his pitiful owl terrifying the birdies he wants to play with.
The frontal view is terrifying and mask-like, with wild staring eyes, a gaping mouth and savage teeth.
Trapped in a hot, heaving crowd, I suffer the most terrifying claustrophobia of my life.
The sound of fins slapping against the water can be just as terrifying as low-pitched violin notes.
The earth movers are towering, terrifying machines, bigger than most of the concrete shanty houses they were sent in to destroy.
The most terrifying is the story of the swimmer stung by a particular kind of jellyfish.
But the wider financial district was forced into a hasty evacuation last Tuesday in a terrifying fog of dust and smoke.
Of course, like anything in the future, this holds terrifying possibilities.
From the mountain chain before them emerged a terrifying creature, a monster, a demon to be precise.
Once, in obedience to a voice he heard and interpreted as the voice of God, Savonarola preached one of his most terrifying sermons.
The tropical marine blowfish, which can grossly distend its spiny body into globular form, thereby terrifying confused predators.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All that had passed since they came to the bowlder was strange, bewildering and terrifying to her.
As for her tart retorts, terrifying to bores and toadies, they only amused him.
The most terrifying metaphors are used to prefigure the judgments which will then be executed on mankind.
But the city of that night wore a visage new and strange to her, and terrifying.
Dazed and wordless, weak from stage-fright, he permitted himself to be led forth into the terrifying glare of the footlight world.
He used to tell me about wonderful and terrifying adventures.
His voice had changed, until the deepness of it was terrifying.
Every sound of his voice beginning on the old subject stirred her with a terrifying bliss, and she coveted the recantation she feared.
The band opened with a terrifying clash of cymbal, and thump of drum.
The terrifying new marketing strategy has worked so well so far that the restaurant's owner, Jay Laze is considering extending the offer.
Such loneliness is primitive and terrifying, which is why Perrine personifies it as a saber-toothed tiger.
These should have been far more terrifying than any foxfire.
The habit of speaking her mind freely was certainly growing on Jane to an altogether terrifying extent.
I moved from hiding-place to hiding-place, always pursued, or so it seemed to me, by these terrifying missiles.
The little monkeys broke, screaming, in all directions as the terrifying noise broke upon their ears.
To Sophy, it was as terrifying as receiving money from the dead.
Two-time world champion Ogier took Neymar for a terrifying tour of Montserrat mountains situated in Spain's Catalonia region.
And he had no idea from which direction the terrifying sound had come.
As he spoke there was a terrifying crash of glass and an inrush of water.
Suddenly there was a terrifying noise as the main topgallant mast came crashing down.
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