terrorizing

Example Sentences

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They’ve also spent years terrorizing locals by leaping from the waves and crashing into boaters, water skiers and fishermen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

They have repeatedly criticized the federal operations for terrorizing immigrant communities, where business has slowed and many have holed up in their homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

Soon enough, the famed chariot was terrorizing American suburbs, thrashing roads and smashing the carbon budget with its iconic, super-high front end, a most patriotic consumer symbol.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

After all, how can a movie about a shark — or more sharks, possibly of some mutant or prehistoric variety, depending on the film — terrorizing people not be fun, right?

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy