Example Sentences

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"Doing another winter at these kind of price gaps is terrifying quite frankly," he says.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

"We're caught between three mad powers, and war is terrifying," the 46-year-old dentist told AFP journalists outside Iran.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

It’s important to feel safe, because reality is terrifying.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2026

That love will never fully die is as beautiful as it is terrifying, and “Together” understands and relays that fact as plainly as any great romance.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin