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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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
That means no brake checking, or hitting your brakes to scare the driver behind you.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
An ideal scenario for the remainder of the year would have the recent choppiness last a bit longer to qualify as a proper scare, skimming the froth off the speculative stuff and resetting expectations in a way that rebuilds investors' capacity to be surprised to the upside.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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Verb
As a singer, few things scare me more than acid reflux.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
That means no brake checking, or hitting your brakes to scare the driver behind you.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
Speaking at the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker, Alabama, in August, the unnamed company allegedly revealed during a panel that their manned aerial craft was to blame for the scare across New Jersey’s skies, an attendee told The New York Post.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
An ideal scenario for the remainder of the year would have the recent choppiness last a bit longer to qualify as a proper scare, skimming the froth off the speculative stuff and resetting expectations in a way that rebuilds investors' capacity to be surprised to the upside.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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