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
That may be," said Gronski, "but it is only just so far as radicalism of ideas or the furies of feeling do not strike terror in a great, stupid, immediate act.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Various, conflicting, and all of them wide of the mark, were my speculations on its outward and visible form, and the martial equipment by which it was to strike terror in all beholders.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
