hair-raising
Example Sentences
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Hair-raising era, For sure, but take heart: Never Do Cheetos prosper.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017
Hair-raising as they were, our hair was not raised, and by now most everyone else's scalp has flattened out too.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2014
Hair-raising rumours – Clegg told LBC listeners he did not dye his locks, contrary to speculation raised by former Dynasty actor Joan Collins.
From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2013
Hair-raising, unpredictable, frighteningly volatile -- just about every scary term imaginable was being used last week to describe the outlandish behavior of the stock market.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hair-raising stories were afloat of ghostly guardians, of strange cries, of unearthly fires that flickered along the cove, and all that sort of thing.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
