Examples of hair-raiser in a Sentence
since they had been dating for five years, her answer to his proposal wasn't exactly a hair-raiser
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In Hokum, the Cork native transports viewers to Ireland’s remote and possibly haunted Bilberry Woods Hotel alongside prickly American author Ohm Baumann (Adam Scott) for a good ol' fashioned hair-raiser of a ghost story.
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Megan McCluskey, Time, 4 May 2026
The streamer has a deep bench of horror films from all eras of cinema among its offerings, from influential classics like Nosferatu (1922) to newer hair-raisers like Possessor (2020), and all kinds of thrillers and chillers in between.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
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Megan McCluskey, Time, 4 May 2026
The streamer has a deep bench of horror films from all eras of cinema among its offerings, from influential classics like Nosferatu (1922) to newer hair-raisers like Possessor (2020), and all kinds of thrillers and chillers in between.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
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“Hair-raiser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hair-raiser. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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