How to Use scared in a Sentence

scared

adjective

• She's scared to walk alone at night.
• He was scared that his mother wouldn't let him go to the movies with his friends.
• I am really scared about speaking in front of the class.
• My mom saw the film and was scared about some of the scenes.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• While the OGs in the Web3 space facepalm, the newbies run scared.
  — Michael Peres, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Rams aren’t scared of them and tend to play well on the East Coast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• Just like adults, some kids just like to be scared, and they're drawn to scary movies.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
• Four days in she was scared enough to go to the emergency room.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The scared kids step over fresh blood and then jostle in the hallway….
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• But if a kid was scared and didn’t want to do [something], the kid shouldn’t have to do it.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• This is what the regime is scared of — that nobody is afraid any longer.
  — Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 19 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, some of us too scared to go back to the office.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 16 Mar. 2022
• Like, being scared on stage is not the worst thing that can happen to you in the world.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• The Kid Laroi isn’t scared to let listeners in — and that’s his strength.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• There was a time when Nestor Cortes was scared to be himself.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Staff who received the email felt scared and refused to go to work.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• And for Max, she's just baffled and scared and is waiting for the right time to emerge.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• His daughters and wife wear hijab and were scared to leave the house.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
• Bam Bam is never scared to step on the field and play against the bigger kids.
  — Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• The dry climate, and the wildfires that result, leave him scared and trapped.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• But be warned: This isn't for anyone who's scared of heights.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
• Here’s what autism isn’t, Gross says – something to be scared of or pity.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
• Jonathan Bennett is not at all scared to be killed in nasty ways.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• This is the scared one, and this is the overconfident one, et cetera.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2022
• No other voice could take away the fears of that scared little boy the way that voice did.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• The hostages do, too: just before he gets shot in the head, one of them gives him a rosary and tells him not to be scared.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
• She was too wired to sleep and too scared to eat, afraid of being poisoned.
  — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• But to the planes above, the scared civilians looked like enemy forces.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
• Some of my co-workers are scared to call out for something simple.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• Their dog, which reliably scared bears away, had died over the summer.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024