How to Use terrorize in a Sentence

terrorize

verb

• As a child she terrorized her younger siblings.
• She was terrorized by nightmares.
• Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions.
• Illinois nurse who was terrorized by her ex turned to the court for help.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The second part is set in the '70s and takes place at Camp Nightwing, a summer camp terrorized by an evil killer.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
• Through the letters, the stalker starts to terrorize Dean, Nora and their kids.
  — Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
• Teachers of color have been run out of their jobs, chased across the country, and are being terrorized with death threats.
  — Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
• Armed gangs terrorize and abduct people for ransom in the northwest.
  — James Bwala, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Dianne and her sisters, Yvonne and Lynn, were terrorized.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• There’s also a vendor area for those who want to terrorize their wallets.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
• These were women who made a living out of terrorizing men, and Anita was at their helm.
  — Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• Then Bukele decided to confront the gangs that had terrorized El Salvador for decades.
  — Randy Ertll, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The movie, which depicts a New England town terrorized by a flesh-hungry great white, may also have gotten a lot of sharks killed.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• Of course, my mother is not a giant red panda raging through the city, crushing cars and terrorizing the hottest boy band in the world.
  — Domee Shi, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
• The thought of 5½ more years of President Biden terrorizes them more than computers and robots do.
  — WSJ, 21 July 2023
• What starts as a peaceful escape turns into a nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• All summer, the long-range drone program had terrorized Moscow.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• In its catalog, the auction house says the Deinonychus inspired the raptors who terrorize the park’s visitors in the 1993 film.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• But in the early months of 1948, Zionist forces terrorized Palestinians.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the movie, a group of high schoolers are terrorized by a masked killer at their prom — only to learn it’s all connected to an incident from their childhood.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• After seeing their live broadcasts terrorized by sonic disruptions, the ladies of The View are making some noise of their own.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• The place where this metaphor falls apart is that, unlike the oppressed groups First Kill is alluding to … the monsters actually do kill and terrorize people all the time.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• The country has grown weary of endless bloodshed, of the gangs that terrorize them, of the lawlessness that has inspired so many to travel more than 1,000 miles to the American border.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Shaheds debuted in Ukraine on Sept. 20 and initially were used to terrorize southern Ukraine.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the subway, squatters terrorize riders foolhardy enough to brave mass transit.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
• The Bachars were among the dozens of families terrorized in Be’eri, where more people were killed in the Oct. 7 attack than in any other Israeli community.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• In the years since, little legislative progress has been made, and school shootings have continued to terrorize students.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• Early on, Monkey tries to make nice with a colony of plain old primates by learning kung fu and defeating the demon that’s been terrorizing them.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The sprawling work follows a boy who runs from home in Tennessee and joins a gang of soldiers who terrorize the American Southwest.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• The mall has been expanded and redesigned over the last 45 years since Blanco terrorized the community.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024