intimidate

Example Sentences

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“People may be intimidated to get up on a stage or at a coffee shop, but here it’s right on street level.”

From Los Angeles Times

As someone who stammers occasionally, she found it less intimidating than a human.

From BBC

We have introduced the Transnational Repression Policy Act, which would establish a clear U.S. strategy to hold accountable foreign governments and their agents who intimidate or harm people in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

Well, Oliver had always been in person, and in person was a thousand times more intimidating.

From Literature

All those wires and buttons had intimidated me, especially since they were so often strapped to a living person I was trying to cuff.

From Literature