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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Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
The Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in South Florida claims that that state and federal anti-LGBTQ policies have siphoned off the institution’s operating budget and scared off corporate investors, leaving the museum in financial peril.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Don’t believe the scare tactics being used by our Florida Surgeon General or Trump’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
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Verb
In 2023, a bear barged into a bakery in Avon, scared employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
The Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in South Florida claims that that state and federal anti-LGBTQ policies have siphoned off the institution’s operating budget and scared off corporate investors, leaving the museum in financial peril.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
Ed Yardeni, president of investment advisory Yardeni Research, is confident the growth scare is just a headfake caused by extremely cold weather in January and uncertainty around policies in Washington.
—Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Don’t believe the scare tactics being used by our Florida Surgeon General or Trump’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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