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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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Jittery housemaid Miss Lamb (Thomasin McKenzie) proves less trouble to manage, as Fred scares the wits out of her with bogus talk of a ghoul wandering the Moors.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Daniel Tedford, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
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Verb
That same year, Wait Until Dark scared me to death when bad guys terrorized a blind Audrey Hepburn.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Jittery housemaid Miss Lamb (Thomasin McKenzie) proves less trouble to manage, as Fred scares the wits out of her with bogus talk of a ghoul wandering the Moors.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Noun
Despite a large scale evacuation affecting tens of thousands of residents across Garden Grove, Stanton and Anaheim, there have been no reports of looting after people fled their homes due to a chemical scare, officials said.
—Daniel Tedford, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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