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How to use terrified in a sentence

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I am terrified that signing a mortgage will make me sacrifice my time to pay for a shell to house my life.
We were the ones who looked terrified and a little too shiny in the T-zone, but I didn't mind.
In any other circumstance I would have been terrified of this bloke and worried that he might hit me.
Hours after the quake, terrified residents stayed away from their homes, gathering in village squares and outdoor coffee shops.
The last thing I saw through the closing crack was dozens of pale, terrified faces watching us in confusion.
As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows.
Small manufacturers tend to be terrified of losing an order, so they dramatically underbid.
The Skraelings were terrified at the sight and fled back to their boats and hastened away.
She sat bolt upright, crying out for her mother in fright at the noise, terrified by the pitch blackness around her.
She's terrified because well, there are guns and stuff everywhere and the dog is just a puppy.
My wife and our Labrador were attacked by a cob today, and although no physical harm was done they were both terrified.
They are terrified of Leninist politics, which is nothing more for them than realpolitik practised by Marxist intellectuals.
By the greatest good luck no one was hurt, but the driver and his passengers must have been terrified.
Police said the woman, too terrified to be named, was shocked and fearful of reprisals but otherwise unharmed.
It felt as if she was jumping off the high diving board, terrified with air rushing past her.
This sense of statelessness terrified him and he dreaded what might happen if the Indonesian or Malaysian police nabbed him.
Older people are terrified by fireworks exploding in the small hours of the morning.
If they see you, they will run and hide, terrified by your citified ways and upright posture.
A young child out with her family was terrified by a couple of unruly dogs when they bounded up to her.
A terrified dad got the fright of his life when he answered his door to find 10 armed police officers shouting and pointing guns at him.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The inflated state of the unchivalrous middle, denominated Manchester, terrified him.
At that moment she heard a noise at her feet which frightened her and a water hen jumped into the water, terrified.
The buccaneers sprang at the terrified women and priests, some with weapons out, others with leers and outstretched arms.
The profession of advocate had terrified him, and he shuddered at the idea of tilling the soil.
Before the terrified boys and girls could comply the father appeared and shot a moonlighter dead in his tracks.
In the doors leading from the corridor to the oecus, terrified faces of slaves began to show themselves a second time.
So saying, he held up to the now terrified eyes of the Duke the tail-feather of a golden pheasant.
Mrs. kata, under the shock of these words, shrunk terrified into a corner of the room.
Because she was terrified, the same sort of atavistic process was at work in her.
And as she dropped them she saw the terrified face of Cornelius open its eyes.
Colden was terrified at the storm that was raised, and took refuge in the fort.
He discovered that when his mother or father was in the room she was terrified lest he should misbehave.
As he lay upon his bed, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and the dream went out of his mind.
His solitude terrified him, and he urgently entreated his sister to come to him.
Laurent selected a skiff, which appeared so light that Camille was terrified by its fragility.
She was so terrified that she did not dare to look out, but shut at once the windows of the gharri.
But the gudgeon and the troutling were terrified at the notion of bigger fishes, and made straight for the weeds.
The treachery of Jehu, in addition to his inexpiable cruelty, terrified the faithful, even while it served their ends.
And then came the clang of the fire bell, and the waiting ranks were terrified.
The third of the commis voyageurs, the gentle one, made large eyes and was terrified that he was going to be sick.
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