hair-raising
Example Sentences
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“When there’s something hair-raising on the screen, you can come up with some pretty hair-raising sounds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Led by Busby’s machine-gun mandolin riffs and hair-raising tenor, the band had a hard-edged bluegrass-style sound that was a far cry from the homogenized, syrupy country-and-western slop heard around town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
But as hair-raising as a loose wolf is for the locals, the situation may be equally fur-raising for Neukgu.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Out of consideration for everyone who had tried to spare her this additional suffering, she said nothing that would indicate she knew about the hair-raising affair of the lost head.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
