strike terror in
Example Sentences
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The bogeyman invoked to strike terror in commuters is the specter of punishingly high tolls on Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia — specifically $17 tolls, as scary as any Halloween fright.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2015
Few things strike terror in people quite like the specter of Ebola.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 23, 2014
They hoped to strike terror in capitalist and governing classes and bring about martial law, which they believed would be equivalent to military dictatorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was such a very little while ago that men had trembled at a look, a word from him: his silence had been wont to strike terror in quaking hearts.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
It seems doubtful, however, whether this part of their garb be intended to strike terror in war, or is only to be considered as belonging to their eccentric ornaments on ceremonious occasions.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
