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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Irene Wright, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
This has caused some to question whether Weinstein has been criticizing the private credit industry only to scare retail investors into selling their stakes to him at a discount.
—Leslie Picker, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
After multiple moves—including a brief stairway scare that required bending and securing the mattress to get it back upstairs—the foam bounced back without issue.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
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Verb
Greene leaves big and loud shoes to fill, but her larger-than-life presence in Washington hasn't scared away candidates hoping to replace her.
—Irene Wright, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
This has caused some to question whether Weinstein has been criticizing the private credit industry only to scare retail investors into selling their stakes to him at a discount.
—Leslie Picker, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
The second quarter is where the Pistons stopped entertaining the idea of another scare.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
After multiple moves—including a brief stairway scare that required bending and securing the mattress to get it back upstairs—the foam bounced back without issue.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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