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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California’s declines can be more properties for sale, nudging sellers to compete on price, and a wobbly economy scaring off some potential buyers.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026
Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
My coworker tells me every detail about their personal problems ‒ family drama, health scares, relationship issues.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Is there somewhere that scares you?
—Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
California’s declines can be more properties for sale, nudging sellers to compete on price, and a wobbly economy scaring off some potential buyers.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
Suffering an early scare in freezing conditions by going 1-0 down in under 10 minutes, the Catalans improved their chances of gaining automatic qualification to the knockout phase by beating Slavia Prague 4-2 away on Wednesday night.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
My coworker tells me every detail about their personal problems ‒ family drama, health scares, relationship issues.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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