How to Use terrify in a Sentence

terrify

verb

• The thought of dying alone terrifies her.
• There’s a scene in the last episode which terrified me.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2023
• The ones at the bottom are terrified of the future and should be.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 7 Nov. 2018
• This isn’t the kind of film that is going to terrify you.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• The world was shocked — and terrified — by the agreement.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
• The idea of growing old as a gay man used to terrify me.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• The friend was terrified: Had Kristin been killed as well?
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• This was what terrified me the most, and has had the most impact on my life.
  — Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• You must be terrified that your youngest wants to be a movie star.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 19 July 2023
• For the first time in my life, I was terrified to be a trans womxn.
  — Nika Lomazzo, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
• And yet the prospect of being funny, at least on the page, terrified her.
  — Zahir Janmohamed, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• It’s meant to terrify, to disgust, to bring us to tears.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Rick backed up against the wall, terrified that Tony would come for him next.
  — Erika Andersen, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2018
• The prospect that her sister might have no way to stay in the United States terrifies the aunt.
  — Rob Kuznia, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• My Hugo would chase it and bark at it, or he'd be terrified.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
• The slayings had shocked and terrified the country three decades ago, the trail long gone cold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
  — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Parents there said they were terrified at the prospect of sending their kids back to school in the fall.
  — USA Today, 23 Mar. 2023
• That’s a straight-up and down branch, and exactly the sort of thing that would terrify the TVA.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 July 2021
• This is what terrified me the most, and has had the most lasting impact on my life.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• What ought to terrify – and motivate – the rest of the WNBA?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
• As Cody points out, the process was far from easy, if not terrifying at times.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 7 May 2024
• We were all crammed in there, and William was looking terrified in the corner.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• There aren’t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2022
• Their efforts to make the world safe again for measles and polio should terrify you.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2021
• But the lack of a clear No. 1 starter doesn’t terrify McDonnell.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2021
• Unlike those pros, April is terrified to be in front of the camera.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Do these mushrooms leave you more awe-struck than terrified?
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
• As a mother of three daughters, I am terrified by how this technology has been used to exploit teenagers.
  — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Jan 2025