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How to use terrify in a sentence

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Some parts of the job I could do with my eyes closed, other parts baffle and terrify me.
A robber who used a fake gun to terrify a shop assistant, sparking an armed police hunt, has been jailed for six years.
Junior high and high school can terrify the wits out of those who are just entering.
Nevertheless some gangs do occasionally break through to stone buses, houses and terrify old ladies.
John hugely enjoys his regular opportunity to terrify the children and clout his fellow cast members!
While fireworks can cause injury to animals, the noise they make can also terrify household pets.
The sight of these illuminated beasts, belching out fire and smoke on a dark night was intended to terrify would-be intruders.
Funny how I can watch all sorts of horror movies for hours and not get scared while that movie and its sequel terrify me!
One is white muslin from the 1920s and the other red satin from the 1970s, and they terrify me.
The film simply lacks the textured macabre atmosphere necessary to truly terrify and ensorcell.
Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance.
Are they really true or are they there intentionally to terrify and upset our mind?
The operation was apparently intended to terrify the residents into leaving voluntarily, but instead it steeled their resolve.
Global terrorism is cheap, requires little manpower, captures the world's attention and gives the weak the ability to terrify the strong.
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils and Calvinistical good nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.
And the giant size of Sully isn't there just to terrify the viewer – it's to give our hero a fitting scale.
The goal should not be to terrify the bejesus out of the public, lest they scrunch their noses and give up.
Originally, they thought L. S. D. would terrify alcoholics by causing symptoms akin to delirium tremens.
When you look back, there is a sort of political genius in being able to lose the Scots and terrify the English all at the same time.
But he reckoned it would take a decade to capture a quarter of the market. That is enough to worry rather than terrify local shopkeepers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She was a brave girl, and to be cast adrift on the world did not terrify her much.
By this time, however, I had combated my own fears, and I was not going to permit his to terrify me.
In August, 1863, occurred Quantrill's notable raid into Kansas to terrify the border which was already harassed enough.
From time to time we will terrify these Germans with a little blast of wireless.
The result of Olympe's aspirations was, we know, such a mauvais quart d'heure with Anne for the Cardinal as to terrify him.
He did not punish capriciously, nor terrify them by anything worse than his strictness.
This question, simple as it was, seemed to both terrify and unnerve her.
You did your very best to terrify her, but you never succeeded.
He meant, of course, that it was no use trying to terrify Tommy Atkins.
To terrify vested interests is to conspire against the State.
And he knew that the fatuity of it all had begun at last to terrify her.
The mere notion of the possibility of his ever seeing her again, appeared to terrify him.
We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee.
A BIG Nation having a quarrel with a Little Nation, resolved to terrify its antagonist by a grand naval demonstration in the latter's principal port.
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