terrorized
Example Sentences
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In a Reddit post that has been widely circulated online, a self-described white 67-year-old Trump-supporting small business owner shared his shock and regret at watching his immigrant employees terrorized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026
“This festival is intended to lift up our ancestors that came to this country in bondage, terrorized, brutalized,” Ludlow said outside City Hall on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
“It’s really terrifying to see our neighbors terrorized in this way.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
In Chicago, where immigration agents terrorized residents all fall, officials at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in suburban Des Plaines are seeing the same even as they adopt security measures to reassure attendees.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
He terrorized kids at their school for minor messes; now he was the minor mess.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
