TERROR in a Sentence

Learn TERROR 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.

248 example sentences for TERROR, such as:

1. Dropping dead has no terrors for me.
2. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived.
3. The world people preach down terrorism and violence.
4. The President has adopted a tough stance on terrorism.
5. A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERROR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
terror
 n.  extreme fear; violent dread; fright
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
2  When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3  The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made twelve.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
4  When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something so infallible as to inspire terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
5  The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
6  Her eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled with a quiver of terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
7  In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8  He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought was getting the upper hand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
9  He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he glanced around the room in a sort of terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
10  He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he had arrived in turn.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
11  Shouts despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more generals, an inexpressible terror.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
12  This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
13  Some bits of dry heather, tossed by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror before something which was coming after.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
14  This anguish was mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
15  In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook where terror lurked.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Human rights watch says that the US is discouraging popular to support for its war on terror by supporting oppressive regimes in countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
17  She called the police from her mobile phone as she stood there in utter terror.
18  The day is already commenced which is to bind us indissolubly; and when we are once united, there shall be no recurrence of mental terrors: I guarantee that.
19  She buried her face in his bosom, she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all too jeering laughter.
20  Dropping dead has no terrors for me.
21  A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
22  A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
23  The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
24  The President has adopted a tough stance on terrorism.
25  The world people preach down terrorism and violence.
26  This is the latest act of terrorism in a long-standing and bloody campaign of violence.
27  By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values.
28  They were as far removed from the ethos of terrorism as you could imagine.
29  Governments must cooperate if they are to fight/combat international terrorism.
30  The new international agreement opens up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism.