hair-raising

Example Sentences

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Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

But as hair-raising as a loose wolf is for the locals, the situation may be equally fur-raising for Neukgu.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“Over the course of marrying and building a life and the hair-raising things we went through, Vinnie and I essentially endured a kind of war together,” says Palmer.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

While thousands packed the stands at Blundell Park, others watched the hair-raising action unfold from the comfort of their living rooms.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

Aunt Petunia let out a hair-raising shriek; nothing this filthy had entered her house in living memory.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling