hair-raising
Example Sentences
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“When there’s something hair-raising on the screen, you can come up with some pretty hair-raising sounds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Led by Busby’s machine-gun mandolin riffs and hair-raising tenor, the band had a hard-edged bluegrass-style sound that was a far cry from the homogenized, syrupy country-and-western slop heard around town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The quiet was hair-raising in its own way.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
England have a recent history of hair-raising starts to World Cups.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
It would be some version of banana yellow and slightly hair-raising.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
