How to Use terrify in a Sentence
terrify
verb
- The thought of dying alone terrifies her.
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There’s a scene in the last episode which terrified me.
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Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Dec. 2023
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This isn’t the kind of film that is going to terrify you.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
30 Nov. 2022
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The world was shocked — and terrified — by the agreement.
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Victor Davis Hanson,
The Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2019
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The idea of growing old as a gay man used to terrify me.
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Washington Post,
24 Sep. 2021
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The friend was terrified: Had Kristin been killed as well?
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Jennifer Gonnerman,
The New Yorker,
27 Nov. 2023
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You must be terrified that your youngest wants to be a movie star.
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Marc Malkin,
Variety,
19 July 2023
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And yet the prospect of being funny, at least on the page, terrified her.
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Zahir Janmohamed,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 June 2023
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It’s meant to terrify, to disgust, to bring us to tears.
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Mark Hughes,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2023
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The slayings had shocked and terrified the country three decades ago, the trail long gone cold.
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Los Angeles Times,
11 Oct. 2019
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De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
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MarÍa Verza,
BostonGlobe.com,
27 May 2023
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Parents there said they were terrified at the prospect of sending their kids back to school in the fall.
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USA Today,
23 Mar. 2023
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That’s a straight-up and down branch, and exactly the sort of thing that would terrify the TVA.
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Chris Smith,
BGR,
1 July 2021
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What ought to terrify – and motivate – the rest of the WNBA?
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Nancy Armour,
USA TODAY,
18 Sep. 2022
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As Cody points out, the process was far from easy, if not terrifying at times.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
7 May 2024
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We were all crammed in there, and William was looking terrified in the corner.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2023
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There aren’t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph.
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Lacey Rose,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 June 2022
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Their efforts to make the world safe again for measles and polio should terrify you.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2024
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Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her.
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Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
11 Apr. 2021
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But the lack of a clear No. 1 starter doesn’t terrify McDonnell.
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Cameron Teague Robinson,
The Courier-Journal,
20 May 2021
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Unlike those pros, April is terrified to be in front of the camera.
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Odie Henderson,
BostonGlobe.com,
1 Aug. 2023
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The people who brag about standing up to Xi are terrified of a 15‐year-old kid.
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Jonathan Edwards,
Washington Post,
16 Oct. 2023
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The friends hid in the greenhouse for 16 hours without food and water, terrified for their lives.
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Gabriele Regalbuto,
Fox News,
18 Oct. 2023
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When the fall weather creeps in, so, too, does an urge to seek out ways to terrify ourselves.
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Natalie B. Compton,
The Know,
27 Oct. 2019
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The thought of starting at the beginning with do-re-mi terrified me.
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Gregg Opelka,
WSJ,
7 Aug. 2023
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The pictures showed her looking terrified, bound, and gagged on a bed.
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Emma Dibdin,
Harper's BAZAAR,
19 Sep. 2019
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Joe is, out of the hospital and ready to terrify Nadia.
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Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
9 Mar. 2023
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The explosion broke most of the windows in the Winterthur house and surely terrified her.
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Margo Rabb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Feb. 2023
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Still, we were admittedly terrified over the idea of spending the night alone in a house with such a gruesome history.
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Julie Jordan,
People.com,
15 Oct. 2024
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Being alone for the first time in years without any kind of agenda was exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.
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Cynthia Moss,
CNN,
19 Oct. 2024
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