How to Use terrify in a Sentence

terrify

verb

• The thought of dying alone terrifies her.
• There’s a scene in the last episode which terrified me.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2023
• This isn’t the kind of film that is going to terrify you.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• The idea of growing old as a gay man used to terrify me.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• The friend was terrified: Had Kristin been killed as well?
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• You must be terrified that your youngest wants to be a movie star.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 19 July 2023
• And yet the prospect of being funny, at least on the page, terrified her.
  — Zahir Janmohamed, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• It’s meant to terrify, to disgust, to bring us to tears.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
  — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Parents there said they were terrified at the prospect of sending their kids back to school in the fall.
  — USA Today, 23 Mar. 2023
• That’s a straight-up and down branch, and exactly the sort of thing that would terrify the TVA.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 July 2021
• What ought to terrify – and motivate – the rest of the WNBA?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
• We were all crammed in there, and William was looking terrified in the corner.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• There aren’t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2022
• Their efforts to make the world safe again for measles and polio should terrify you.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2021
• But the lack of a clear No. 1 starter doesn’t terrify McDonnell.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2021
• Unlike those pros, April is terrified to be in front of the camera.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• The people who brag about standing up to Xi are terrified of a 15‐year-old kid.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• The friends hid in the greenhouse for 16 hours without food and water, terrified for their lives.
  — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• The thought of starting at the beginning with do-re-mi terrified me.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
• Joe is, out of the hospital and ready to terrify Nadia.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• The explosion broke most of the windows in the Winterthur house and surely terrified her.
  — Margo Rabb, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• The first time going back to Joshua Tree was terrifying.
  — Colin Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Todd was known as a Jekyll-and-Hyde type, Flock writes—sweet when sober, terrifying when high on a cocktail of meth and Xanax.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Back on the pro-Trump side of the barricade, Diane Lewis said the charges against Trump were terrifying.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• And caused white supremacists to show up at my doorstep to terrify my wife and kids.
  — Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
• The stories from survivors who fled the fast-moving flames terrified her.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
• The young men cowered in the waiting room and on the upper floors, terrified that their attackers might find them.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Someone wrote that nobody but Shirley Jackson could terrify you with the scene of a picnic on a lawn.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024