reign of terror

Example Sentences

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They’re currently hitting smaller home haunts across the city, but Silva says, if you go to just one this season, make it Reign of Terror.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

The FBI deemed that the Reign of Terror also lasted only five years in the '20s when in reality it had lasted about two decades.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2023

Known as the Reign of Terror, it sparked a major FBI investigation involving J Edgar Hoover.

From BBC • May 15, 2023

Formerly friends, they are at odds when “Danton’s Death” starts, at the height of the Reign of Terror, in 1794.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

The music and the dancing became mournful as a succession of funereal dances conveyed the murderous Reign of Terror.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann