As a child she terrorized her younger siblings.
She was terrorized by nightmares.
Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions.
Recent Examples on the WebAn elderly man was forced to hang up his unusual weapon after a decade of allegedly terrorizing his neighborhood with a slingshot.—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024 Military-grade weapons do not belong in the hands of criminals who terrorize our communities.—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024 Or Stop Making Sense, Avatar, Apollo 13, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Lone Star, or roughly 90 percent of any movies featuring monsters terrorizing pretty ladies from the last 50 years?—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2024 The 64-minute black-and-white movie about a one-eyed giant octopus terrorizing Mexican villagers was shot in six days for $12,000, with the beach at Malibu filling in for the Yucatan Peninsula.—Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for terrorize
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