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Examples of scare in a Sentence
Verb
You scared me. I didn't see you there.
Stop that, you're scaring the children.
Noun
There have been scares about the water supply being contaminated.
fired over their heads in order to throw a scare into them
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Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Because these WMAs are designed to provide two conflicting services — to maintain wildlife habitat and to offer recreation, including hunting opportunities that may scare the birds away — no one really knows how the resident geese perceive the situation.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Forget about sonic devices, essential oils, and other scare devices to repel chipmunks.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verb
All these precautions are not meant to scare people, Tetro and Gerba said, but to inform.
—Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Because these WMAs are designed to provide two conflicting services — to maintain wildlife habitat and to offer recreation, including hunting opportunities that may scare the birds away — no one really knows how the resident geese perceive the situation.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
The film costars Jamie Foxx, who is making a comeback of his own after a startling 2023 health scare forced his retreat from acting.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Forget about sonic devices, essential oils, and other scare devices to repel chipmunks.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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