SCARE in a Sentence

Learn SCARE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

133 example sentences for SCARE, such as:

1. I was scared of the big dog.
2. I wonder who is scared to lose me.
3. Something would turn up to scare it away.
4. He that will take the bird must not scare it.
5. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scare
 v.  frighten; alarm; strike with sudden fear
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  There was nothing in a dream about fog to scare her so.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  And when he come to this country and was pore, that didn't scare him a mite neither.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost survives and hovers over it to scare.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
4  The hour is coming when Ahab would not scare thee from him, yet would not have thee by him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
5  In the end Jurgis got into a fine rage, and made it sufficiently plain that it would take more than one Irishman to scare him into a union.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  "Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him, and passing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
7  The two men looked at each other with a scare.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
8  It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
9  I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  But I better hive it tonight if I can, because the doctor maybe hasn't let up as much as he lets on he has; he might scare them out of here yet.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
11  Ah, I understand; it is recollections of the past that scare you.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  Something would turn up to scare it away.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
14  Well, I'd be scared, then; I wouldn't do it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
15  But this new doctor has scared her about herself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The huntsman sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge.
2  It wasn't a serious heart attack, but it gave him a terrible scare.
3  Don't make too much noise or you'll scare away the birds.
4  He that will take the bird must not scare it.
5  The city centre suffered some disruption due to a bomb scare.
6  The recent food-poisoning scare has reignited debate/concern/controversy over farming methods.
7  Despite last night's scare, it was business as usual in the White House today.
8  The headmaster's austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly.
9  This kind of prank is not good for Amazon because it will scare some customers away.
10  Since the contaminated milk poisoned nearly fifteen-thousand people in June, Japan has been in the grip of a food scare.
11  It scared me to think I was alone in the building.
12  I wonder who is scared to lose me.
13  You scared me out of my mind, coming up behind me suddenly like that.
14  I'm scared, yes, but it's a case of mind over matter.
15  I was scared of the big dog.