scary
Example Sentences
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My latest column, “The Big Scary Myth Stalking the Stock Market,” argues that the fears about overconcentration are overblown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The previous record-holder for the largest known TDE -- an event nicknamed Scary Barbie -- was about 30 times weaker and involved a star only three to ten times the Sun's mass.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
Members of Scary Little Girls said they had been awarded the money to help them tell new stories through their show Queenagers.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025
Scary winds and thunderstorms can be at one end of the lake, and calmer water and blue skies at the other.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
Scary creatures slither and skulk about; some scream constantly, while others have laughs so cold I can feel it in my bones.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Vocabulary lists containing scary
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -y
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Unit 18, Lesson 1
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