Example Sentences

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With a vial, he scoops up an eight-legged dot that wouldn’t scare even the most extreme arachnophobe.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

In metro Atlanta, Jennifer Turpin — a self-described arachnophobe — stopped blowing leaves in her yard after inadvertently walking into a web created by the Joro spider.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Enter a slinking Captain America -- a plainclothes-clad Evans -- to scare Johansson more than a spider might scare an arachnophobe.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2015

Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2015