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How to use the word scare in a Sentence?

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Rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons, my former colleagues, a Republican supermajority, are assaulting democracy, and that should scare all of us across the nation.

Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our parents fostered independence and a belief that we could truly be anything we wanted to be when I grew up, but most important was to pursue a passion, i hope that sharing our stories encourages young girls to try something new, face something that may scare them, and look at challenges as exciting opportunities.

Susan Wojcicki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This data isn’t meant to scare anybody. We have one of the best public water drinking systems in the world.

Shanna Miko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason they're afraid of me is they can't control me…. I scare them.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's complete bulls ** t and a scare tactic.

Andy Slavitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a big scare, i was scared because I saw she wasn’t breathing, but now she is doing very well.

Andrea Fuentes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Senate Democrats can't let this happen, guys. And it's going to be hard. Because inflation is going to scare the living hell out of everybody.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am intoxicated with withdrawal, paranoia, anger and fear. I live for the moment of meeting eyes telling fortunes – they can’t tell mine and God does that drive them nuts. I confuse people, scare them; they can’t quite get a grasp on me. I just take my meds and pray to the gods for their souls.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It's just a power play on them trying to scare us.

Mike Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's a conversation that should be held in a comfortable setting, where a parent says, depending on the age of the child,' What do you feel comfortable with ?' we don't want to scare the children, but it is worth a conversation to say,' What is a good hug ? What is a bad hug ?'.

Suzanne Barchers '

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's very concerning the language that they're using to communicate fewer restrictions. It's very reminiscent of how it was in March 2020, it is concerning that we may, you know, we're headed down the track, it appears of going online due to this omicron scare.

Patrick Burland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I head this man on t.v. saying ‘in order for God to be able to use someone they must first fear God.’ I have also heard that God is in everyone. This must be why so many people scare me.

Lisa Kucharski

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

You will likely see these kinds of scare tactics – government, the Democrats, they’re the same thing, and they want to ruin the way you live. Testing, masks, vaccine, now your kids in school, critical race theory, whatever that is.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Before today, I thought, red scare McCarthyism was rightly relegated to the dustbin of history, any American citizen who fled communist repression – whether it be FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams or OCC nominee Saule Omarova – should be lauded for their courage and conviction. I believe that my colleagues – from both sides of the aisle – will reject such character assassinations.

Sherrod Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By definition, fear is a negative emotion, when we're scared of something, we are experiencing our well-being under threat, and people do not enjoy that. What they are enjoying are things associated with that experience that typically happen after the scare is over.

Glenn Sparks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My favorite thing about Halloween is hard to say, there are so many things I enjoy about it, i enjoy the fact that you can make it to be anything you like. If you want to be scared and scare other people, you can do that. If you want to be cute and sweet, you can do that. Halloween has no restraints, allowing a person to dress up and be anyone they like and decorate any way they like.

Michelle Carlbert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My plans are to start exploring what my new hometown of Kansas City has to offer in the way of Halloween celebrations. I'm going to try and visit a pumpkin patch and probably some scare parks, as for Halloween night, I may go out to see what the local neighborhoods are up to as I'm currently in an apartment and likely won't get any trick-or-treaters. Once I have a house again, I'll go back to decorating it and passing out candy on Halloween night, which I love to do.

Michelle Carlbert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I scare people all the time, but I have done even before Logan Roy so it's nothing unusual to me, it's a kind of hazard that I deal with all the time.

Read MoreI

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You have every right to be an idiot. What you don't have the right to do is you don't have the right to harass shopkeepers, you don't have the right to scare people away from downtown and from those stores at their busiest time of year, and you don't have the right to expose your children to this. This is flagrant behaviour that puts other people at risk … we [city Council] have far better things we should be doing with our time than dealing with these people [CoVID-19 anti-mask protestors].

Naheed Nenshi

added by Greying_Geezer
2 years ago

Citizens in the past have been hearing about climate change coming from scientists, reports, and graphs, and there is a cognitive aspect, which is, something doesn't scare us so much if it's not right in front of our eyes.

Yoshua Bengio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It almost always gets you first-degree murder because premeditation can be formed in an instant, you put your hands around the neck, that’s an unwanted touching, that’s simple battery or assault. Then you start to squeeze, your argument could be, ‘Well, I just wanted to scare them.' But then you contuse to affix pressure… There’s a certain amount of minimal time that someone needs to do that before somebody is dead.

Mark Eiglarsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Both parties want the bragging rights of a winner in Virginia. And if McAuliffe loses, that's going to scare some Democrats on the fence on the Biden agenda.

Stephen Farnsworth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The state resorted to an unprecedented scheme of vigilante justice that was designed to scare abortion providers and others who might help women exercise their constitutional rights, while skirting judicial review.

Brian Netter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Write the tales that scare you, that make you feel uncertain that isn't comfortable. I dare you, in a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves and to in turn feel the need to be constantly visible -- for visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success -- do not be afraid to disappear. From it, from us, for a while and see what comes to you in the silence.

Michaela Coel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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