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
Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Sal Reedus began documenting his weight-loss journey online after multiple life-threatening health scares due to his weight of 725 lbs.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 15 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
Design software companies have been hit hard by the AI scare trade, as investors worry that AI will soon be able to handle creative tasks in minutes.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Sal Reedus began documenting his weight-loss journey online after multiple life-threatening health scares due to his weight of 725 lbs.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 15 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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