terrifying

Example Sentences

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Times theater critic Charles McNulty called Lithgow’s performance “at once terrifying and never anything less than human,” and “one of the bravest” of the Broadway season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

And when my thoughts go idle, they drift to new happy memories that I’ve made all myself: A rainbow over a mountain range after a terrifying hail storm in Texas.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

“It is scary and terrifying, because it makes you remember the 15 years of the occupation of the border villages and makes you worry more about the next phase” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

It depicted a young boy wandering lost through the Backrooms' terrifying corridors.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

I felt as though I were caught in a different dimension where death was as present as life, and everything was elemental and terrifying.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo