scare
Example Sentences
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But Miss Curtis says they have high hopes for many other fruits and vegetables, possibly including lasering pumpkins with "cut here" scarey faces for Halloween.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2017
Her visions were not that scarey – children dancing around trees, a school bus, long dead relatives standing in the door, a western movie on the white board where the nurses wrote daily info.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2010
Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dem was scarey times an' when you is scared you takes trigger-notice.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Mississippi Narratives by Work Projects Administration
He was meaty with news and scarey stories.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Adams, Andy
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