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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Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Mozer yelled out of his apartment window, scaring Moseley off.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Rather than scare tactics, the initiative presents the positives of safely enjoying the sun.
—Faye Brookman, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Higher prices and looming economic uncertainty could scare off consumers, experts previously told ABC News.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Mozer yelled out of his apartment window, scaring Moseley off.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
Still, the market behavior to date – as dizzying and against-consensus has it’s been – has not deviated enough from a typical setback in a post-election growth scare to insist that the rules for assessing this market’s prospects have changed definitively with the leadership the White House.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Rather than scare tactics, the initiative presents the positives of safely enjoying the sun.
—Faye Brookman, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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