TERRIFYING in a Sentence

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1. I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
2. He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
3. Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
4. That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
5. The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRIFYING
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terrifying
 a.  frightening or intimidating; of a formidable nature; terrific
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  But Tony's advent brought it all home to her in a far more terrifying manner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  He looked huge, larger than she had ever seen him, a terrifying faceless black bulk that swayed slightly on its feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
3  With a terrifying bump they were off the road, slanting with two wheels in the ditch, but instantly they were jerked back as the horses fled on.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  At the same instant the car was assailed by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started in alarm, the women turned pale and shrank back.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Once their water pipes froze and burst; and when, in their ignorance, they thawed them out, they had a terrifying flood in their house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying gaze.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
7  In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have encountered him, a joyous sound became audible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
8  Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering there, and life was palpitating there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
9  This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the same time.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
10  He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
11  But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
12  It had taken her years to realize that it was really blotted out by this terrifying new and gruesome England, and that the blotting out would go on till it was complete.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  At the same moment, and in the midst of the terrifying silence which usually follows a clap of thunder, they heard a knocking at the door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
14  He told his hearers that he was there that evening for no terrifying, no extravagant purpose; but as a man of the world speaking to his fellow-men.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  She wished to love him as a son, but felt that to her he was a stranger and a terrifying man.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  A terrifying scream in the blackness of the night made my blood run cold.
2  These thieves operate with terrifying stealth - they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.
3  Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
4  The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.
5  Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
6  Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
7  She was absolutely terrified at the thought of jumping off the bridge.
8  That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
9  You've got to appear calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath.
10  He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
11  I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
12  Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's “Suspicion,” died.