Example Sentences

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"I was so agitated that I was scared. I was scaring myself because I felt out of control," he said.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The pounding was scaring her daughter, who was sitting on a chair next to us in a pink floppy-eared hat and leggings with little shiny butterflies on the knees.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2025

“I think I even told the male cop he was scaring me and freaking me out with his behavior,” she added.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2022

On this date in 1916, the Yuma Game Warden reported that civil war in Mexico was scaring big game across the international line into the Yuma and Mohave Mountains.

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2021

If Byron was trying to scare me he was scaring himself too.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis