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scare
verb as in frighten someone
Example Sentences
“Cultures” Versus “White Girls” As you can probably sense from my scare quotes, you can never be too careful these days.
Mrs. Deshales ordered an ambulance, which managed to scare off Wahlberg and his pals.
As we have seen, it is not just the fact that they scare people.
Keep the scare quotes around gay “marriage,” or at least put an asterisk after it.
An HIV scare, Rand Paul talking points, and a (maybe) proposition.
The submarine scare is full on; the beastly things have frightened us more than all the Turks and all their German guns.
Then the other girls followed; but, just as Nelly got on, Robert Wood shook the plank, and tried to scare her.
London was growing quiet, so that the shrieks of the late newsboys with the evening scare could be distinctly heard there.
At night the train is increased by the addition of a torch-bearer, to scare off the wild beasts by the glare of his torch.
I'm half afraid to spend another night in the sleeper after the scare we got last night.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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