make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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I’m sure I don’t remember giving my mother any particular trouble when I was Matilda’s age, but the stories I’ve heard to-day are enough to make one’s hair stand on end.
From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
A thing to make one's hair stand on end!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
There are dealers in wigs and essences who are enough to make one's hair stand on end; they care only to sell you bottles.
From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
The others were telling stories, calculated to make one's hair stand on end, about signs and warnings, and their horrible fulfillment.
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Fraser, Malcolm
It's enough to make one's hair stand on end.
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz
