How to use terrifying in a sentence

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• Last night's alarm turned out to be nothing, but it was terrifying at the time.From the entry alarm
• The doomsday bomb is terrifying. It puts all other nukes to shame.From the entry doomsday bomb
• And like so many robots, they’re an incongruent mashup of terrifying and cute.2015 December 23, Adrienne LaFrance, “Santa's Reindeer Are Robots Now”, in The Atlantic. From the entry incongruent
• They are a terrifying force in the galaxy, responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry. From the entry myth
• Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills, Atlantic Books, →ISBN. From the entry Godzilla
• This was not to say that the demons who were already in place were not terrifying.2009, John Connolly, “In Which We Learn That One Should Be Careful About Accepting Anything That Is Offered For Nothing”, in The Gates: A…. From the entry bed-wettingly
• This phenomenon is frequently experienced by victims of a terrifying event as well.2008, Curt R. Bartol, Anne M. Bartol, Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Research and Application, SAGE, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry tunnel vision
• When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke.1974, James A[lbert] Michener, “Drylands”, in Centennial, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN; Dial Press trade paperback edition, New…. From the entry spit
• There is nothing so terrifying or so awe-inspiring as the unknown.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry awe-inspiring
• "Patriotism and theophobia are the sources of great tragedies and terrifying pictures.1913, Robert Loyalty Cru, Diderot as a Disciple of English Thought, page 421. From the entry theophobia
• For astraphobes, a thunderstorm can be a terrifying experience.2021 March 11, Sullivan Valdez, The most common phobias. From the entry astraphobe
• An enormous swarm of terrifying flies flew out of a pagan temple destroyed during Otto’s missions, embodying the residing evil forces.2020, Stanisław Rosik, “The space of the turning point in the context of its neighbours: Pomeranian communities within the circle of the…. From the entry miraculum
• The most absolutely terrifying creature lifted her head.2018, Adam Cece, The Unbelievably Scary Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls, Text Publishing, page 212. From the entry absolutely
• That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts!2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry nickel
• To celebrate Alien Day, 20th Century Fox dropped its latest prologue short called "The Crossing" alongside a terrifying VR experience.2017, Victoria Wollaston, “You can now experience the horror of Alien: Covenant in VR”, in Wired. From the entry Alien Day
• Although that sounds absolutely terrifying, it’s actually not that bad.2016 December 1, “‘Nelfie’ wants you to take a nude selfie for charity”, in Philanthropic People, retrieved 29 Aug 2018. From the entry nelfie
• The terrifying party doesn't stop: keep going all weekend.2013 October 24, HK Magazine, “Halloween^([sic]) Parties and Events in Hong Kong”, in South China Morning Post, Tai Po, New Territories…. From the entry Hallowe'ekend
• It must be terrifying for them, but I don't care.2010, G. B. Trudeau, Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox. From the entry explosiony
• Happily I flounder about, terrifying the minnows, and float on my back and spout cheekfuls of water at the sun.1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone…. From the entry cheekful
• He was a big man and looked terrifying in his armour and facelessness because of the helmet and vizor.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 71. From the entry vizor
• I conjure up a terrifying picture of Her Excellency the Ambassadress to Timbuctoo, writing official minutes to the Right Hon.1947, Collie Knox, It Had to be Me, page 152. From the entry secretaress
• The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I. From the entry parade
• Most soldiers would testify that the everyday experience of war is long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden, terrifying spells of disorder.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian. From the entry punctuate
• However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22. From the entry hanahaki
• Anyway, if you are a woman after a certain age, the time, effort and energy it takes not to frighten horses is truly terrifying.2020, Rachel Johnson, Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry Love Islander
• It is a microcosm of everything that is compelling and seductive about modern life, and of everything that is terrifying about modern life as well.2019 September 17, Jess Cartner-Morley, “So hot it hurts: London fashion week in the age of climate activism”, in The Guardian. From the entry late stage capitalism
• With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen.2013, Janos Jantner, Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry dead-eyed
• At his elbow was a tall, black-haired, hawk-faced man with a terrifying glare directed over Charlie's head, straight at the little DeWaters kid.2010, Robert S. Telford, Charlie Tanner Could Walk on Air, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry hawk-faced
• It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.2006, David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry, page 119. From the entry catatonic
• Pity about the ubiquitous foam machine, but the surviving clip shows Oak and Quill as bed-wettingly terrifying (despite the terrible incidental music).2000, Mark Campbell, “42) Fury From The Deep (6 episodes)”, in Doctor Who: A Completely and Utterly Unauthorised Guide (Pocket Essentials…. From the entry bed-wettingly
• Civilization is, through the numinosity of divine kingship, the mediation between the impossible heights of the gods and the terrifying depths of the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry numinosity
• She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.1979 April 14, Nancy Walker, “Kiss and Tell”, in Gay Community News, page 13. From the entry footnote
• I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart's not in it.1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 10. From the entry fuliginous
• Once, Cinrak watched fascinated and horrified as Agnes casually cronched a shark, tearing them apart with terrifying efficiency and feeding the struggling beast into the concentric carnassial circles.2018 December 1, Catherine Lundoff, editor, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), Queen of Swords Press, →ISBN. From the entry cronch
• Sincero belongs to that tradition, and urges her readers to identify their dreams and take terrifying risks in order to be the “brightest, happiest, badassiest version of yourself”.2018 May 16, Lauren Mechling, “Jen Sincero says she can make you a badass – has it worked for her millions of readers?”, in The Guardian. From the entry badassy
• In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry burglar
• "By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed.2016, Andrew Mitchell, Furious Tales. From the entry emasculatingly
• Can't say we'd be best pleased if the terrifying sound of explosives was going on underneath our bedroom window, but the assembled crowd seem to enjoy it.2014 December, “Bosnian family sets off 15,000 firecrackers in weird Christmas tradition”, in entertainment.ie. From the entry best pleased
• And so we see that the case of the worldwide war-machine is both more terrifying and more hopeful than Virilio advances in the theory of the globalitarian state.2013, Simon Glezos, The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry globalitarian

Meaning of terrifying

1. adjective Frightening or intimidating.
2. adjective Of a formidable nature; terrific.

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Questions about terrifying in a sentence

How do you use terrifying in a sentence?

Terrifying is used as an adjective. For example: “Last night's alarm turned out to be nothing, but it was terrifying at the time.”

What is a short sentence with terrifying?

“That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts!”

What does terrifying mean?

Terrifying means frightening or intimidating.