TERRIFY in a Sentence

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These thieves operate with terrifying stealth - they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
terrify
 v.  frighten; fill with terror
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  For he never means to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
2  Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  But she, she does not know what it is, it would terrify her.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
4  I do not tell you this, madame, to terrify you; no, it is even ridiculous for me to name it to you, and, believe me, I take no heed of such dreams.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
5  We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The mere notion of the possibility of his ever seeing her again, appeared to terrify him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
7  Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
8  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...
9  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
10  My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
2  Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
3  She was absolutely terrified at the thought of jumping off the bridge.
4  That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
5  You've got to appear calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath.
6  He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
7  I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
8  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.
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.