hair-raising
Example Sentences
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“I don’t believe this is hair raising crazy stuff that everybody’s making it out to be,” she said of the Thomas email.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Each landing is genuinely hair raising, with aircraft routinely approaching the runway sideways as they’re buffeted by the wind measuring in excess of 60mph.
From The Verge • Feb. 18, 2022
“These events are hair raising for me and passengers, let alone for a driver behind me,” one owner wrote in a report to the agency.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022
It was hair raising, that feeling was absolutely incredible.”
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015
I shall be seen hanging by my nails to this funereal box, a virtuoso, ferocious, with dishevelled hair, raising the dead and digging a grave at the same time!
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
