scaring

Example Sentences

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A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

“Higher mortgage rates are scaring off some buyers, but that’s opening the door for others,” Chen Zhao, Redfin’s head of economics research, said in a statement.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Resident Faye Sturgess said: "Being a farming community, we're used to hearing bangs from scaring the rabbits in the fields, but this was like nothing I've ever heard."

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Weir incorporates complex mathematical concepts into his storytelling in “Project Hail Mary,” but the cerebral approach doesn’t seem to be scaring many readers away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In order to avoid scaring them, I walked back to the path and headed toward them.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah