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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Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Later, Pennywise takes on the guise of the man in order to scare Eddie.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
This latest glitch isn’t the first time MAVEN has given NASA a serious scare.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
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Verb
And if the role scares you a little and excites you a lot?
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Later, Pennywise takes on the guise of the man in order to scare Eddie.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
Since Paul claimed that LeBron will finish the final year of his contract with the Lakers, the skepticism doesn’t come off as a scare tactic for the Lakers.
—Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
This latest glitch isn’t the first time MAVEN has given NASA a serious scare.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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