TERRIFIED in a Sentence

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The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRIFIED
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terrified
 v.  fill with terror; frighten greatly
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, crouching down like a terrified dog.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
2  His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little became impregnated with fear.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
3  My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  Hence the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls surrendering their swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
5  The heart is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many brave men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
6  An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
7  So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be lacking in the house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
8  The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she was unfamiliar, and which terrified her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
9  No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and ecstatic.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
10  That thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes Saint-Marcel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
11  The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
12  If one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other side of it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
13  It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
14  The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and struck a pane with her fist.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
15  The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
Example Sentence:
1  She was absolutely terrified at the thought of jumping off the bridge.
2  That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
3  You've got to appear calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath.
4  He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
5  I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
6  Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's “Suspicion,” died.
7  Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
8  Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
9  A terrifying scream in the blackness of the night made my blood run cold.
10  These thieves operate with terrifying stealth - they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.
11  Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
12  The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.