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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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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
High prices could scare off would-be investors, but momentum abounds.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2024
Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
New Snow White preview says heigh-ho to Gal Gadot's spooky Evil Queen transformation and menacing Magic Mirror
She also shared what the health scare taught her.
—EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Verb
The 2x Oscar nominee, who co-wrote and directed the 2005 Johnny Cash pic Walk the Line, has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians after the parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007).
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
High prices could scare off would-be investors, but momentum abounds.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
There's nothing immaculate about the macabre scares, however.
—Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
New Snow White preview says heigh-ho to Gal Gadot's spooky Evil Queen transformation and menacing Magic Mirror
She also shared what the health scare taught her.
—EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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