terrify

Example Sentences

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Mary McCarthy has been driving for almost 20 years, but has only driven on the motorway about ten times in her life because they terrify her.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Here’s the part that should terrify everyone buying “AI-powered trading systems” in 2025: Even now, with every firm on Wall Street running the same technology, Medallion still beats them.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

“We are going to terrify with some of the most startling, extraordinary things with the physical production.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

The sum effect is to silence and terrify and isolate people who need to be able to ask for help in the midst of a crisis.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2024

Maggie revealed that she and Kate had been mischievous girls who “wanted to terrify our mother.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock