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

Spoken on a winter day in 1865, however, the words are terrifying to 10-year-old Liam.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

They had been ordered with terrifying strictness to say not one word about Veronika’s letter or any other topic until their mother decided the moment was right to spring the news on the captain.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood