scared to death

idiom

: very afraid
often + of
She was scared to death of flying.

Examples of scared to death in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Consummate carnival barker William Castle issued $1,000 life insurance policies (backed by Lloyds of London) with tickets to his 1958 fright-fast Macabre in the event that audience-members be scared to death. Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2024 Entire villages died out with people scared to death of hunger, fearing for their children, victims of an artificial famine. Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024 Everybody’s scared to death of a virus that no one’s telling the truth about. Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022 And everybody after that became scared to death of who Donald Trump was again. CBS News, 9 May 2021 Money talks, but the cowardice and the selfishness of the legislators who are so scared to death of being primaried and losing their job, losing their power, losing their salary. Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 Those who think English pointers are the only hunting dog breeds worth feeding, and those who are scared to death of them. Kyle Wintersteen, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023 Advertisers are scared to death of what Elon is doing right now, no question. Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Nov. 2022 Folks are scared to death in this city. Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2022

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“Scared to death.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scared%20to%20death. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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