INTIMIDATE in a Sentence

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Bilibin attentively examined his nails, and many of those present appeared intimidated, as if asking in what they were to blame.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTIMIDATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intimidate
 v.  frighten; make timid; fill with fear
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  In an instant his sword glittered in his hand, and he sprang upon his adversary, whom, thanks to his great youthfulness, he hoped to intimidate.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
2  The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
3  but as you please, said Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion had prevailed.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
4  Bilibin attentively examined his nails, and many of those present appeared intimidated, as if asking in what they were to blame.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I
5  Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military salute.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
6  I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance by his master's air; "I have not seen him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
7  It is true that this provincial was a Gascon; and that, particularly at this period, the compatriots of d'Artagnan had the reputation of not being easily intimidated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
8  I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door, and I stopped, intimidated and trembling.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
10  As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
11  Amazed and intimidated, she gazed at him in silence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
12  Pitty was not overly fond of India, for India intimidated her with her dry, stiff-necked ways and her passionate convictions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
13  And the trunk, intimidated, doubtless, by this resolute statement, gave in.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  I am not intimidated, like your father and your stepmother.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  The former slaves were intimidated, beaten, raped, and butchered by angry and revengeful men.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager.
2  They tried to intimidate the young people into voting for them.
3  The group said Eveleth's arrest was designed to intimidate and disrupt its protests during the Earth Summit.
4  They were intimidated into accepting a pay cut by the threat of losing their jobs.
5  Some people are intimidated by his size, but in fact he's a gentle giant.
6  She was intimidated by his physical presence.
7  The diners were intimidated by contemptuous manner of the waiter.
8  Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
9  Although she was intimidating in aspect, she was warm and affectionate beneath the surface.
10  With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
11  Miss Minchin's demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.
12  Proponents of reform argue that the theatre of court is too intimidating for those accused of relatively minor crimes but in unknown rituals.
13  He's charged with interfering with the performance of a flight crew by assault or intimidation.
14  The voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.
15  He told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.