How to Use terror in a Sentence

terror

noun

• The sound of guns being fired fills me with terror.
• These people have been living with terror and the threat of terror for many years.
• Many civilians fled in terror.
• This is where the terror-edge of being lost bends to leisurely joy.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Over the next four years Kroupa became the target of a campaign of terror.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• But since the document came out, terror seems to have changed sides once more.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Their faces and a few limbs are sticking out of the ice, and their expressions are that of sheer terror.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Jan. 2024
• All that’s left is to glance over at the faces of your comrades, pale with terror at their own daring.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The only thing left was shaky footage that gave insight into their night of terror in the woods.
  — Rick Bentley, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• The couple’s terror comes as swatting incidents appear to be on the rise in the U.S.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 June 2023
• But soon after the 9/11 terror attacks, Ramos joined the Army Reserve.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• To ring in the '90s, Jamie dipped her toe into crime (instead of terror) films and starred as a rookie cop in Blue Steel.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• The general consensus is for Israel to get the hostages out and then deal with the Hamas terror.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• His name and the image appear to have been a prank or joke mocking a victim of racist terror.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Still, two pivotal events prompted her to take a sharp turn on the issue: the deadly terror attack in Paris in 2015, and the rise of Mr. Trump.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• In one sense, Somalia has long been a footnote in the United States’ war on terror.
  — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• The highlight of his experience was getting to break the news in 2011 that the terror mastermind had been killed by U.S. troops.
  — Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 July 2023
• The problem is everyone else in the kingdom, who have lived in terror of beings like her for centuries.
  — Vulture, 30 June 2023
• Windows: how stupidly the intensity of glass returns to us the terror of love.
  — Lyn Hejinian Anne Boyer, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• The action is non-stop, and Penner shows that gun battles and car chases are not de riguer to create tension and terror.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• This led to a terror attack in Mumbai and the development of the encounter squad, who attempted to take Ibrahim down.
  — Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• What if the fiction, in other words, was not the fantasy of contact, the terror felt by the boy who thought the dome might fall, but instead the naïve belief that worlds could be held apart?
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Israel has been bombing Gaza this week in response to the Hamas terror attacks that killed at least 1,300 people in Israel.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• The following day, the terror group published an image through Amaq purporting to show the four men who had attacked the complex.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• Larry leads the uprising of insects, who offer their own brand of terror.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• The report said that last year there was an increase of about 100 terror watchlist suspects who were encountered along the border.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Escaping the terror of lynchings, Black migrants were flowing from south to north in a movement of millions.
  — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Kremlin has embraced a challenge in the wake of last week’s deadly terror attack in Moscow: pinning the blame on its enemies.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• The first episode begins with a nostalgic crawl of red letters, followed by an opening sequence to remind fans of the trademark terror of the dark side.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2023
• Family memories range from the still of Alaska winters to the heat and terror of the West Bank under intifada.
  — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024