had scared
- past perfect of scare.
Example Sentences
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Several days later, Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel’s interim editor in chief, said the site’s coverage had scared away advertisers, according to 404 Media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Save Ukraine returned 31 children that day and several confirmed that camp staff had threatened to place them in care, which had scared them.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
Now, if you have systems that spontaneously want to move, this sounds dangerously like a perpetual-motion machine, and that had scared physicists away.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2022
On Wednesday, MTK Global announced it was shutting down, saying U.S. sanctions against the Kinahan family had scared away the company’s business partners.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
I didn’t know if I had scared them off or not, but I hoped I had.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
