How to Use terror in a Sentence

terror

noun

• The sound of guns being fired fills me with terror.
• These people have been living with terror and the threat of terror for many years.
• Many civilians fled in terror.
• The hearings gave us both the tragedy of Jan. 6 and the absurdity, the terror and the irony, the blood and the ketchup.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• When the heat was cut off, cold and terror gripped those who remained.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• This is where the terror-edge of being lost bends to leisurely joy.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Over the next four years Kroupa became the target of a campaign of terror.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• Said squad-mate will cry out in terror and sorrow as their friend falls.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
• But since the document came out, terror seems to have changed sides once more.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Their faces and a few limbs are sticking out of the ice, and their expressions are that of sheer terror.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Jan. 2024
• All that’s left is to glance over at the faces of your comrades, pale with terror at their own daring.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Heck, there’s even a makeover episode in which the girls go to a salon and express terror that the judges might chop their hair off.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
• There’s no Halloween terror or mourning gloom to the piece.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• The only thing left was shaky footage that gave insight into their night of terror in the woods.
  — Rick Bentley, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• And this war can be over quickly if the hostages will come home and Hamas will stop doing its terror.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2024
• The couple’s terror comes as swatting incidents appear to be on the rise in the U.S.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 June 2023
• But soon after the 9/11 terror attacks, Ramos joined the Army Reserve.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The whole amphitheater was in complete shock and there were many screams of terror.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2022
• The number of terror watch-list arrests at the border for the last five years combined was 26.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2022
• To ring in the '90s, Jamie dipped her toe into crime (instead of terror) films and starred as a rookie cop in Blue Steel.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• The general consensus is for Israel to get the hostages out and then deal with the Hamas terror.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• His name and the image appear to have been a prank or joke mocking a victim of racist terror.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• The car slid back a foot and all three of them felt a simultaneous burst of terror.
  — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• Ernaux’s resolve here seems very like the performance of a child who has vowed to act adult, to be brave in the face of terror.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Still, two pivotal events prompted her to take a sharp turn on the issue: the deadly terror attack in Paris in 2015, and the rise of Mr. Trump.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The editor learned of detentions among her friends with a sense of terror, a source said.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 22 Jan. 2023
• The story balances the drama that fills the neighborhood with the terror and mystery that haunts it.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• After the initial shock and terror, anger buzzed through my body, battling with the cold that numbed my fingers and toes.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
• That robot, which filled observers with equal parts awe and terror, weighed in at 330 pounds and could pull off black flips and parkour moves.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
• The world that Williams built is not always as grim as our own pandemic era, yet it is beset by its own terrors.
  — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024