Get to know Scare better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like fright or shake.
Scare in a sentence
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Scare meaning
- A minor fright.
- A cause of terror or alarm; a panic; something that inspires fear or dread.
- A device or object used to frighten.
Synonyms of Scare
Using Scare
- The main meaning on this page is: A minor fright. | A cause of terror or alarm; a panic; something that inspires fear or dread. | A device or object used to frighten.
- Useful related words include: fright, frighten off, frighten away, shake up.
- In the example corpus, scare often appears in combinations such as: to scare, health scare, scare the.
Context around Scare
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scare
- In this selection, "scare" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bomb, black, red, someone, red and contained stand out and add context to how "scare" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bomb scare alert at and a bomb scare in glasgow. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scare" sits close to words such as chairperson, ishares and lethal, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scare
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After all, what scares you may not scare someone else. (10 words)
But the Lavender Scare was also about domestic partisan politics. (10 words)
Both candidates have significant weaknesses that may tire or scare voters. (11 words)
Some e-mail viruses written after the Good Times scare contained text announcing that "This virus is called 'Good Times,'" presumably hoping to gain kudos amongst other virus writers by appearing to have created a worldwide scare. (37 words)
And did a film called Prisoners with Denis Villeneuve and playing Bob Taylor was really tricky for me because it deals with some of the themes and things that scare me the most about this life. (36 words)
As Deepavali usually falls in the month of October or November, the more than 900 families living around the bird sanctuary took the decision to save the birds and not scare them off by bursting crackers. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
She theorizes U.S. Capitalist Racist Society, a racially hierarchical political economy built on exploitative labor relationships, as one base of the Black Scare / Red Scare.
Some e-mail viruses written after the Good Times scare contained text announcing that "This virus is called 'Good Times,'" presumably hoping to gain kudos amongst other virus writers by appearing to have created a worldwide scare.
A "bomb scare" in Glasgow's Red Road area of Springburn makes the lead in the Glasgow Times.
A car has caused a scare at a Christmas pageant in Adelaide.
After a few seconds into descent, a bear suddenly falls on top of the player, causing a similar effect to a terrifying jump scare from a horror movie.
After all, what scares you may not scare someone else.
After failing to be a successful poltergeist and scare the new family out of their home, they call upon the chaotic Beetlejuice () to help them remove the family once and for all.
All little vampires, monsters and phantoms should prepare to scare and enjoy some frightfully good fun.
And did a film called Prisoners with Denis Villeneuve and playing Bob Taylor was really tricky for me because it deals with some of the themes and things that scare me the most about this life.
Another flavor of this hate comes in right-wing scare stories about dystopian police states created by liberal overreach in the name of public health or environmentalism.
Another man came to scare the leopard away by throwing a rock and got attacked himself.
A passenger, suspected to be a victim of psychosis-related disorder, was detained at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport for unnecessarily raising a bomb scare alert at a London-bound aircraft.
As Deepavali usually falls in the month of October or November, the more than 900 families living around the bird sanctuary took the decision to save the birds and not scare them off by bursting crackers.
Australians are being underestimated by "doomsayers" promoting scare campaigns about the Indigenous voice to parliament, Anthony Albanese says.
Barris decided he would need to scare the contestants into acting appropriate at future tapings.
Both candidates have significant weaknesses that may tire or scare voters.
But because my wife’s Christian family was there, I told my fellow mujahideen, “Don’t do the traditional celebration because we have Christians coming and it will scare them.
But sometimes, the scariest stories associated with on-screen scare fare come from their respective sets, from macabre mishaps to chilling happenings that just can't be explained.
But the Lavender Scare was also about domestic partisan politics.
Casper’s three uncles will join him if he fails to scare someone.
Common combinations with scare
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to scare 46×
- health scare 30×
- scare the 13×
- the scare 11×
- scare and 9×
- scare you 8×
- scare in 7×
- scare off 7×
- scare away 7×
- scare at 6×