hair-raising
Example Sentences
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"A particularly hair-raising moment was when my cofounders asked, 'If you have control, what happens when you die?' He said something like '...maybe it should pass to my children.'"
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
“Mother Mary” is as hair-raising as it is eyebrow-raising, all spectral senselessness until, out of nowhere, the eeriness gives way to a startling profundity as the film explores remorse with biblical repercussions.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
His writing is sinewy and unsparing, as enchanting and hair-raising as the forest itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Aunt Petunia let out a hair-raising shriek; nothing this filthy had entered her house in living memory.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
