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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Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
Despite the anodyne cinematography, special effects that look rinky-dink compared to Oppenheimer, and a color palette more suited to an episode of The A-Team than serious cinema, the movie really scared me.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Donald Glover is detailing the severe health scares that forced him to cancel the remainder of his New World Tour last year.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Nov. 2025
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Verb
Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation.
—Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
Despite the anodyne cinematography, special effects that look rinky-dink compared to Oppenheimer, and a color palette more suited to an episode of The A-Team than serious cinema, the movie really scared me.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
By the time the second Thanksgiving rolls around, Lee and Elliot have embarked on an affair, while Hannah's ex-husband Mickey (Allen) fights a health scare, and Holly continues to struggle in her acting career.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Donald Glover is detailing the severe health scares that forced him to cancel the remainder of his New World Tour last year.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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