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• She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.From the entry jump
• When the terrified, bleeding cow was washed overboard into the river, the hungry piranhas entered a feeding frenzy, turning the water red with blood.From the entry feeding frenzy
• They look at each other terrified out of their frontal lobeless minds and run.2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 66. From the entry frontal lobeless
• I was terrified and Nick was insane, but I wasn't going out that easily.2018, Erin McCarthy, Silence of the Ghost, Erin McCarthy, →ISBN. From the entry Nopeville
• She comforts a terrified Sansa by telling her they're just a group of women chatting.2014, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance, page 123. From the entry genderspeak
• The lowest mountains here terrify me far more than anything I saw in Connemara or Achill.2013, Colm Toibin, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families. From the entry gardenish
• Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it.2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry emetophobia
• Until I was 16 I had no idea that escalators could terrify me.2011, Katharine Miller, 30 Failures by Age 30, →ISBN. From the entry chock-a-block full
• You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.2007, Libby Purves, Love Songs and Lies, unnumbered page. From the entry sprog
• Later, when we played King's Quest 2, I remember being legitimately terrified while inside Dracula's castle.2004 September 2, Emily Morganti, quoting Matthew Chapman, “Peasant’s Quest”, in adventuregamers.com, archived from the original on 23 Sep…. From the entry legitimately
• Many looners are terrified of talking about it in case they might be accused of being pederasts.1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex. From the entry looner
• There was a young deshi (fledgling sumōtori) looking up at the oyakata with a terrified face.1998, “Arena”, in Look Japan, volume 44, Tokyo: Look Japan, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 2. From the entry sumōtori
• Drainboard had been terrified by a narrow escape from the jumping spider's dragline.1990, Mary James [pseudonym; Marijane Meaker], chapter 10, in Shoebag (An Apple Paperback), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry dragline
• Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen.1951 January 1, “Medicine: Without Fear”, in Time. From the entry delivery room
• He’d been so terrified by the look on his father’s face that he gasped, breaking the trancelike moment.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 159. From the entry trancelike
• “I went in terrified about a Zoombombing,” Mr.2021 January 14, Steven J. Birenbaum, “How to Hold a Virtual Memorial Service”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry zoombombing
• A terrified mob of these MAGAs in their red hats had gathered in the town square screaming: “Where’s Sarah?2020, John Pansini, Election 2220: Night of the Voting Dead, RtS Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry maga
• Weak people are terrified of the place.2020, Ivy Wonder, Endgame: A Dark Mafia Romance. From the entry the trash takes itself out
• "The Storm is coming," say the conspiracy theorisers whose grotesque imaginings terrified the country to attention this week.2018 August 3, Molly Roberts, “QAnon is terrifying. This is why”, in New Zealand Herald, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2019. From the entry The Storm
• “We were terrified to tell him,” Mr.2016 May 17, Walter Einenkal, “Prominent Florida Republican is fighting for her child's trans rights”, in Daily Kos. From the entry abuelo
• It’s Wizard McDowl, chaos magic terrifies him.2012, Stephen B. Pearl, “Officialdom”, in Worlds Apart, Toronto, Ont.: Dark Dragon Publishing, published 30 July 2013, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry australopithecus
• 'I'm wantin' half a pound of bakin' sody,' whispered Ally Beag with a terrified glance in my direction.2012 April 5, Lillian Beckwith, The Hills is Lonely: Tales from the Hebrides, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry sody
• The terrified looks on everyone's face when it was time to play that game was enough incentive to come to Thanksmas.2011, Tamara Jane Owens, Remembering Mary Jane, page 78. From the entry Thanksmas
• Yet even as the two establishment candidates huffed and puffed to assert their authority, they seemed terrified by Mr.2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times. From the entry wittily
• She was terrified but in control. n.2006, Anna Cypra Oliver, Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story, page 10. From the entry chirk up
• "Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants off people," says Rob Smith, editor of PC Gamer magazine.2004 April 12, Chris Taylor, “Video Games: You Ought to Be in Pixels”, in Time. From the entry the pants off
• Republicans are terrified of him; Democrats call him a bully.2003 July 28, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Washington Memo: Can a 'Wire Brush' Learn Civility?”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014. From the entry sharp tongue
• Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept.2003, Kala Trobe, The Witch's Guide to Life, page 96. From the entry nonadept
• The antirally demonstrators broke windows and forced their way into the building as the terrified audience fled in the opposite direction.2001, Ty Cashion, Jesús F. de la Teja, The human tradition in Texas (page 206). From the entry antirally
• Oddly enough, eagles, hawks, and other large birds of prey are not the birds that typically terrify ornithophobes.1992, Don Nardo, Anxiety and Phobias, page 56. From the entry ornithophobe
• A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.1985, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry churchgoer
• People are rightly and justifiably terrified with our culture.1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6…. From the entry repellent
• Nannie Slagg, terrified at this suggestion, raised her little bony hands to her mouth and raised her shoulders to her ears.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Prunesquallor’s Knee-Cap”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry make a run for it
• In fact, she says, she’s terrified.2025 October 4, Maureen Dowd, “When A.I. Came for Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry P.O.'d
• And many, at the same time, are anxious and bored and underemployed and overemployed and stir-crazy and uncertain and lonely and terrified.2020 March 19, Megan Garber, “The Utter Weirdness of Small Talk in a Pandemic”, in The Atlantic. From the entry stir-crazy
• There was, I suppose, a sadder side to it, in that I felt so terrified in case I got caught, as any teenager would.2020, Will Young, To be a Gay Man. From the entry danger wank
• For a moment, I was terrified.2019, Yvonne Kason, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences, Dundurn Press, →ISBN. From the entry superbrilliant
• A lot of emetophobes are particularly terrified of vomiting in public – many cite a fear of losing control and of others finding them repulsive.2015 January 26, Katie Grant, “How I beat my fear of vomiting: ‘Eating frightens me’”, in The Independent. From the entry emetophobe
• Shara's blade cut the creature's flank, then the demon leaped over the terrified lizardfolk and vanished in a rising cloud of mist.2011, James Wyatt, Oath of Vigilance: A Dungeons & Dragons Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN. From the entry lizardfolk
• Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.2009 June 10, John Cloud, “Michael Jackson 1958–2009”, in Time, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2010. From the entry small talk

Meaning of terrify

1. verb To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
2. verb To menace or intimidate.
3. verb To make terrible.

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Questions about terrify in a sentence

How do you use terrify in a sentence?

Terrify is used as a verb. For example: “She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.”

What is a short sentence with terrify?

“For a moment, I was terrified.”

What does terrify mean?

Terrify means to frighten greatly; to fill with terror.