hair-raising

Example Sentences

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For 15 hair-raising minutes, the pilots struggled to evade a half-dozen surface-to-air missiles, spraying countermeasures and executing a series of high-G maneuvers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

England have a recent history of hair-raising starts to World Cups.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

Meagan, I learned, had never experienced the scenic, hair-raising, cable car ride that connects the small mountain town of Khulo with the tiny village of Tago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Much of the Elon-related pseudo-news emerged from one of Trump’s hair-raising Oval Office encounters with a foreign leader, in this case newly-elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

So one thing I do not want is to live at a hair-raising distance from my job, assuming, of course, that I get a job.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich