terrorized

Example Sentences

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I asked if she worried that Pratt’s agenda would amount to punishing 70,000 people for the actions of a much smaller number, like the man who had terrorized her.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Ergo Sum, the local school’s classics instructor, is terrorized by his memories of surviving World War II and convinced that he is transforming into a wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

He fearlessly expressed what no one else dared to say in a community terrorized by criminal gangs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Yellow fever terrorized many major cities throughout the 1800s—not only Philadelphia and Manhattan, but Boston, Baltimore, Mobile, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, Savannah, Charleston, and Jacksonville, to name a few.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy