bloodcurdling
- arousing terror; horrifying: a bloodcurdling scream.
Origin of bloodcurdling
Examples from the Web for blood-curdling
Contemporary Examples of blood-curdling
She says: “It is blood-curdling and shocking and it is becoming his symbolic signature.”
There is no more prized scalp” he shrieked—and he invested the word “scalp” with blood-curdling intensity—“than mine!
Joe Walsh Vs. Tammy Duckworth: Yelps, ‘Lies’ and Tough Talk in Illinois House ShowdownLloyd Grove
November 5, 2012
SUBTOTAL: $101.5 million a year THE BOTTOM LINE: The gross vampire product is a blood-curdling $771.5 million annually.
Historical Examples of blood-curdling
Then she went through the most blood-curdling pantomime ever was, I reckon.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
I had not long to wait before I heard a blood-curdling yell and then crash!
The Black Wolf PackDan Beard
What need to tell here the blood-curdling story of the Hussite Wars?
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
A gentle rowdy of twelve will speak the Duke's blood-curdling lines.
Wappin' WharfCharles S. Brooks
Roosevelt was enough of a boy rather to relish things that were blood-curdling.
Roosevelt in the Bad LandsH. Hagedorn.
bloodcurdling
- terrifying; horrifying