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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Michael Russo, New York Times, 1 May 2026
The lobby is where the elderly owner scares children with tales of a witch who once haunted these grounds.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
The judge also heard from the victim's mother, who walked by Bentley's home last year and got a scare.
—Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 1 May 2026
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Verb
Eriksson Ek scare Top Wild center Joel Eriksson Ek left 29 seconds into the third period after sliding awkwardly into the boards.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 1 May 2026
The lobby is where the elderly owner scares children with tales of a witch who once haunted these grounds.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
The Sox survived a scare in the ninth.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
The judge also heard from the victim's mother, who walked by Bentley's home last year and got a scare.
—Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 1 May 2026
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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