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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John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Without it, regulation-heavy environments like Spain (which recently introduced strict labeling laws for AI content) will scare away the next generation of founders.
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—Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Barby’s road to tryouts in 2024 was made even more complicated by a shocking health scare.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 June 2025
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Verb
However, the stories about Porter from Cleveland and Houston may scare enough other teams that Milwaukee can keep him at that price.
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—John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Without it, regulation-heavy environments like Spain (which recently introduced strict labeling laws for AI content) will scare away the next generation of founders.
3.
—Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
Hot on the heels of a June 10 urgent Google Chrome browser security update, just a week later, the technology behemoth has confirmed yet another security scare that requires users of the world’s most popular web browser across all platforms with the exception of iOS to update now.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Barby’s road to tryouts in 2024 was made even more complicated by a shocking health scare.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 June 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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