make one's hair stand on end

Example Sentences

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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

How often was I not in embarrassments enough to make one's hair stand on end, badly in debt.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

A thing to make one's hair stand on end!

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

And something did happen, though not of a character to make one's hair stand on end.

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór

And now, my Hannah'li, I tell you once and for all, it is enough to make one's hair stand on end, and hardly to be believed!

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb