Example Sentences

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“According to the complaint, the chicken had been terrorizing bank customers all week, at both the walk-up ATM and the drive-thru,” the department said in a light-hearted Facebook post.

From Fox News • May 5, 2020

The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N.

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as we got there my brother Lmatarion told us that two lions had been terrorizing the camps.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

He was a recognized hero of the British public, which on one occasion had presented him with a testimonial for his capture of a desperado who had been terrorizing the East End of London.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

Lady Barbara Gordon, in open company, had announced that she knew positively that Lord Farquhart was no other than the Black Highwayman who for a twelvemonth had been terrorizing the roads round about London town.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various