How to Use scared in a Sentence

scared

adjective
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  • She's scared to walk alone at night.
  • He was scared that his mother wouldn't let him go to the movies with his friends.
  • I am really scared about speaking in front of the class.
  • My mom saw the film and was scared about some of the scenes.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • While the OGs in the Web3 space facepalm, the newbies run scared.
    — Michael Peres, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Just like adults, some kids just like to be scared, and they're drawn to scary movies.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
  • Four days in she was scared enough to go to the emergency room.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The scared kids step over fresh blood and then jostle in the hallway….
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But if a kid was scared and didn’t want to do [something], the kid shouldn’t have to do it.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This is what the regime is scared of — that nobody is afraid any longer.
    — Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, some of us too scared to go back to the office.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Like, being scared on stage is not the worst thing that can happen to you in the world.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The Kid Laroi isn’t scared to let listeners in — and that’s his strength.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • There was a time when Nestor Cortes was scared to be himself.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Staff who received the email felt scared and refused to go to work.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • And for Max, she's just baffled and scared and is waiting for the right time to emerge.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • His daughters and wife wear hijab and were scared to leave the house.
    — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Bam Bam is never scared to step on the field and play against the bigger kids.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The dry climate, and the wildfires that result, leave him scared and trapped.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • But be warned: This isn't for anyone who's scared of heights.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
  • Here’s what autism isn’t, Gross says – something to be scared of or pity.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Jonathan Bennett is not at all scared to be killed in nasty ways.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This is the scared one, and this is the overconfident one, et cetera.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2022
  • No other voice could take away the fears of that scared little boy the way that voice did.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The hostages do, too: just before he gets shot in the head, one of them gives him a rosary and tells him not to be scared.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
  • She was too wired to sleep and too scared to eat, afraid of being poisoned.
    — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • But to the planes above, the scared civilians looked like enemy forces.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
  • Here are the four things that might have smart investors running scared.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Hodgson says not to be scared to add a little personality to the logo, too.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Western civilization was under attack, though most people were scared to say this out loud.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024

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