bloodcurdling
Example Sentences
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After six seasons, Peaky Blinders reached its bloodcurdling finish on TV in 2022 and had used the West Midlands backdrop for many locations, such as the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
There’s entertaining — and even healthy — catharsis to be found in bloodcurdling tales of zombies, vampires and vaguely supernatural Others.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023
Among Schank’s most memorable moments in “American Movie” was a bloodcurdling scream he recorded for “Coven.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Even better, seeing it in a cavernous, 2,800-seat theater made the bloodcurdling screams from a lady behind me echo like we were in hell’s screening room.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Lyra was about to tell her one of the bloodcurdling stories she’d made up to frighten the Oxford kids with, but the man was already speaking.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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