Example Sentences

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The spike in her blood pressure, which had scared her into seeking a prescription, was back to normal within six weeks.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

He said the letter had scared members of his congregation, a group of about 150 to 200 people, which he described as multi-ethnic and multi-racial.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

“They said we had scared the patients,” Weinstein said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

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

They had scared Derrick, but they could not scare Eric.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones