Want to use Terrified correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like afraid.
Terrified in a sentence
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Terrified meaning
Extremely frightened.
Synonyms of Terrified
Example sentences (20)
And she's terrified that she's doing the wrong thing," added lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who is assisting the family.
A North Yorkshire woman was left "terrified" after being told her monthly energy bill was rising by more than £8,000.
He said: “Patients are worried sick, consultants have written to me to say they are terrified for patient safety.
The unrelenting pirate then murders her without a moment's hesitation, in front of her terrified young children.
His longterm partner Victoria Clarke admitted she was "terrified" by the outbreak and immediately sought medical advice.
As terrified passengers telephoned for help, humanitarian workers assured them that a rescue team was coming.
A terrified Pasawm is seen running for his life from the scene with two other teens allegedly wielding knives chasing him.
Men are understandably often terrified of this cancer because of the potential side effects of impotence and incontinence.
Dr Wells described one woman with who was terrified of what was to come after seeing her dad succumb to the same condition.
A woman who pointed a loaded revolver at a terrified victim, only for the gun to misfire, has been jailed.
She then says that for an innocent man, Randy seemed terrified and that he brought up Jeff at one point.
But while this is undoubtedly true – we see everything from his increasingly terrified standpoint – back then, I was resistant.
The only hard truth is that Ramaswamy is terrified of losing far-right support by having his past criticism of Trump resurface.
The terrified turkey hen is held upside down while a hypodermic syringe delivers sperm into her oviduct via the exposed cloaca.
Not long after they find a terrified Amity, who was hiding from ‘ghosts,’ the floor beneath their feet starts to twist and turn.
And her parents are terrified of being sent back to Guatemala, the country they left several years ago in search of a better life.
Her voice shook: before we came to the farm, she was sad to watch me losing color, terrified that she wouldn’t be able to save me.
He was also terrified of assassins but he would have been stupid not to be as there were many about.
Shah Rukh Khan came to the rescue of terrified female crew members after Prahlad Kakkar yelled at them on set: 'He went backstage.
The 34-year-old singer shared her pregnancy news on Saturday, saying she was “happy and terrified”.
Common combinations with terrified
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- terrified of 38×
- was terrified 31×
- terrified that 12×
- terrified to 12×
- terrified and 10×
- the terrified 9×
- and terrified 9×
- terrified by 8×
- are terrified 8×
- were terrified 8×
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