hair-raising

Example Sentences

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"A particularly hair-raising moment was when my cofounders asked, 'If you have control, what happens when you die?' He said something like '...maybe it should pass to my children.'"

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The quiet was hair-raising in its own way.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

His writing is sinewy and unsparing, as enchanting and hair-raising as the forest itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 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

So one thing I do not want is to live at a hair-raising distance from my job, assuming, of course, that I get a job.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich