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How to use the word scary in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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All of the crops are completely flooded and ruined, it takes a lot of jobs for people. That’s a lot of food that we provide for up and down California and all around the nation. It’s pretty scary.

– Martina Sealy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re going to do a concussion test and it sounded like he was coherent and that he knew kind of what was going on, but he did have that glazed look on him. He’s going to be at the hospital for the rest of the night maybe. That was scary. Very hard to focus after that after you see a colleague get hit. But they gave me updates and I was like, ‘Alright. He’s good. He’s in safe hands.’ So, we moved on.

– Chris Guccione

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were no Catholics in my area or school. For most of my life, I thought, we are the good guys – and all of them Irish Catholics were evil, scary and wanted to kill us, but it’s not that young loyalists are running around with a hatred of Irish Catholics in their hearts.

– Joel Keys

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very scary for the nation to see what’s happening here. If I didn’t know that it was happening to me, I would think this was 1963 instead of 2023.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It also feels sad and scary when you think about what’s driving it, as the current warming trend continues, we will keep losing more glaciers.

– Lauren Vargo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What’s being predicted here is very scary, every time one comes it grows a little bit more in intensity.

– Peter Houk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a little scary that you can just wake up and get these appointments in — or these pharmaceuticals — and you’re not being cared for.

– Bree Holtz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel like I possibly regret the decision every day but here we live paycheck to paycheck, we live within our means, and we don’t have the financial luxury to pack up and move, it’s scary.

– Samuel Wenger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know it seems scary, but this is something that you should do, or at the very least consider it, it can bring so much relief knowing that you made a choice to keep you here for as long as possible.

– Samantha Carlucci

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I remember my wedding ceremony and that feeling of not knowing anything. That unpredictable and really scary future.

– Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was definitely very ugly and scary but a wonderful reminder of why we’re telling this particular story and how special and powerful art and, particularly, theater can be, and it just made me feel extra, extra grateful to be the one that gets to tell this particular story and to carry on this legacy of Leo Frank.

– Ben Platt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tiger means so much to us as players out here on Tour and he’s done so much for us out here that it’s fun for us to be able to see him still continue to do what he loves, it was pretty scary a few years ago when he got in that accident and we didn’t know if he was going to be able to do this again, and so just to have him out here on the grounds and to see him around doing what he loves to do is a lot of fun for us.

– Scottie Scheffler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been through this so many times, it’s still scary, it will always be scary until they finally open this door and let me go, or remove this from over my head completely, so I don’t have to worry about, ‘Are they going to kill me next month? Or the month after that? When does time finally run out?’.

– Richard Glossip

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a scary situation, my son is still scared, he wants to go back to school, but he just wants to know that he’s gonna to be safe, and that’s the biggest thing.

– Mark Garcia Sr.

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a scary situation, my son is still scared, he wants to go back to school, but he just wants to know that he’s gon na to be safe, and that’s the biggest thing.

– Mark Garcia Sr.

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Myself and my children were awakened by some loud noises. Initially, I thought they were fireworks, it’s very scary. You know, as a mom, it’s something you never want to experience.

– Linda Lopez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It looks like over 50 shots were fired here, which is a very scary situation considering there’s a mobile food truck and … the number of patrons that were outside.

– Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s so much public trust damage that was done globally during Covid that it was a very different outbreak, so this one, to be honest, was scary.

– Amy Boore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has really wonderful primary nurses, they were in tears having to leave him because my baby suffered cardiac arrest two days before the strike happened, and so now I’m dealing with that plus the shortage of staff. Which is very scary.

– Lora Ribas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was always an athlete but taking on these classes was definitely scary for me at first, like, ‘Am I even going to be able to physically do this?’ It took a lot of practice and time to get to where I am.

– Olivia Amato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s really no words, i ’m glad they stopped the game. It brings you back to there’s a lot of bigger things that are more important than sports and games. It was pretty scary.

– Terry Pegula

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been scary, it’s been exciting, it’s been sad.

– Patrick Holland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I understand how a felony is scary, but there is nothing that this law is telling doctors to do or not do that we haven’t always done, we’ve always intervened when we needed to save a woman’s life.

– Ingrid Skop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Communicate acceptance. Acknowledge that something might be scary or distressing or uncomfortable or hard.

– Eli Lebowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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