Examples of scare in a Sentence
Verb
You scared me. I didn't see you there.
Stop that, you're scaring the children.
Noun
There have been scares about the water supply being contaminated.
fired over their heads in order to throw a scare into them
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
The combination doesn’t scare everyone.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, directed Ryan Duffy and released last month, chronicles Odom’s 2015 scare when he was found unresponsive at the Love Ranch brothel located outside Las Vegas.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
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Verb
This isn’t a film about trauma, or smuggled-in social issues, or anything at all, really, besides the honest workaday business of scaring the bejesus out of its audience, rinsing, and repeating with extra vigor.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
The combination doesn’t scare everyone.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
Taylor Momsen is powering through a frightening health scare on tour.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, directed Ryan Duffy and released last month, chronicles Odom’s 2015 scare when he was found unresponsive at the Love Ranch brothel located outside Las Vegas.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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