Wondering how to use Scary in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as chilling or scarey.
Scary in a sentence
Scary meaning
- Causing fear or anxiety
- Uncannily striking or surprising.
- Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.
Using Scary
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing fear or anxiety | Uncannily striking or surprising. | Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.
- Useful related words include: chilling, scarey, shivery, shuddery.
- In the example corpus, scary often appears in combinations such as: the scary, is scary, and scary.
Context around Scary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scary
- In this selection, "scary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, less, particularly, deliver, movies, stories and headlines stand out and add context to how "scary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a particularly scary game though and a really scary time. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scary" sits close to words such as appreciated, encountered and precisely, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that was scary, that was a really scary time. (10 words)
And this is a very big, very scary, tough time. (10 words)
But radio is - you know, it is scary, very scary for me. (12 words)
In terms of the game's fear factor, it's not a particularly scary game though it does have its scary moments, such as the section in Chapter 3 - 1, where players must traverse crocodile-infested water. (37 words)
A Leo doctor would make a great pediatrician or for their older patients, they are likely to have a wonderful bedside manner and can deliver scary news with an upbeat, positive outlook, so it seems less scary. (37 words)
He was like the kid in school who says he has seen all the scary movies, but refuses to go to any sleepovers where scary movies are played; the kid who has “a girlfriend at another school”. (37 words)
A few days later, Li posted a photo of herself filing a report at a police station, along with a comment: “Have asked lawyers to keep a record, this is so scary! (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
I know that “Hovering around 3%” is not the sexiest of headlines, but understanding the math behind the scary headlines can make them much less scary.
In terms of the game's fear factor, it's not a particularly scary game though it does have its scary moments, such as the section in Chapter 3 - 1, where players must traverse crocodile-infested water.
From a scary kitchen, Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama gave a scary speech that confused more than scared people.
It’s a scary, scary situation but he was stable when he left and he’s doing okay.
A Leo doctor would make a great pediatrician or for their older patients, they are likely to have a wonderful bedside manner and can deliver scary news with an upbeat, positive outlook, so it seems less scary.
Carnivals are pretty much never not-scary, but this adaptation of 's novel is just the appropriate amount of scary.
This is a scary time for all of us; it is especially scary for people in prison who can’t self-isolate; can’t socially distance; can’t stay 6 feet apart.
But radio is - you know, it is scary, very scary for me.
He was like the kid in school who says he has seen all the scary movies, but refuses to go to any sleepovers where scary movies are played; the kid who has “a girlfriend at another school”.
Produced and developed by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark centers on a literal book of scary stories.
While Manford said Bubbs had a scary bark as a pit bull and acknowledged pit bulls’ reputation for being scary dogs, she said Bubbs had never hurt anybody in the time she and Regalia owned him.
And that was scary, that was a really scary time.
Whether scary movies are actually scary or not is determined by the viewer.
A few days later, Li posted a photo of herself filing a report at a police station, along with a comment: “Have asked lawyers to keep a record, this is so scary!
A few seconds with the torches off shows you just how scary the place could be if you were left stranded by your fellow urban explorers.
Aljaz Skorjanec has admitted it is "scary" as he shared an update on baby Lyra.
Although the coincidence is uncanny, the anxiety was due to both kids and my husband getting very sick with a virus that sent me spiraling back to our scary winter of illness.
And I think that’s obviously a very scary proposition for people making complaints of sexual misconduct, because already it is not an easy process to go through,” Shatz said.
And the Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world, so as scary as that was … there's something exhilarating about the challenge of it all.
And this is a very big, very scary, tough time.
Common combinations with scary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the scary 14×
- is scary 13×
- and scary 13×
- very scary 11×
- scary to 11×
- scary and 11×
- it scary 8×
- scary as 8×
- scary movies 7×
- be scary 7×