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How do you use Terror in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like panic or brat, plus the exact meaning.

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Terror in a sentence

Terror meaning

  1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.
  2. The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
  3. Something or someone that causes such fear.

Synonyms of Terror

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Using Terror

  • The main meaning on this page is: Intense dread, fright, or fear. | The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction. | Something or someone that causes such fear.
  • Useful related words include: panic, brat, soul, mortal.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: verschrikking.
  • In the example corpus, terror often appears in combinations such as: of terror, the terror, terror attack.

Context around Terror

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 33.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Terror

  • In this selection, "terror" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 33.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, using, based, baneful, group, attack and virtue stand out and add context to how "terror" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include linking of terror to a, 11 mumbai terror attack, terror attack, terror group and terror attacks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "terror" sits close to words such as wheel, exception and perfectly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with terror

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Instead of fighting terror, Abbas embraced the internationally-designated terror organization Hamas and insisted that the terrorists be allowed to participate in the PA elections. (25 words)

Oxford English Dictionary, terror,n, "terror-bombing, intensive and indiscriminate bombing designed to frighten a country into surrender; terror raid, a bombing raid of this nature". (26 words)

Israeli air strikes killed six top members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, and more than a dozen other alleged terror group members, among 33 Gaza fatalities. (27 words)

I wish I could write something a bit more uplifting, but sadly we are in the last year of Biden's (or whoever runs him) reign of terror, and with that is an emphasis on "terror," lest Le Bad Orange Man take back the White House in November. (48 words)

But she would lead us — she’s proposing to lead the United States into yet another global war on terror, after the previous 20-year war on terror that this administration has been trying to wind down, with some success but some failures. (43 words)

M. Night Shyamalan has a penchant for delivering audiences twisted tales of terror, so whatever an audience might think about the terror that will offer us, it's safe to assume that this trailer is only the tip of the iceberg. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

We see thus, that there is a tendency towards right-wing linking of terror to a political agenda, left-wing linking of terror to a social agenda, and Palestinian political linking of terror to martyrdom and heroism.

If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless.

Oxford English Dictionary, terror,n, "terror-bombing, intensive and indiscriminate bombing designed to frighten a country into surrender; terror raid, a bombing raid of this nature".

A New Jersey man inspired by Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught attempted to join the al-Shabaab terror group to harm the United States, a federal court in New York announced on Friday.

A year after the IDF launched the massive counter-terror effort in Judea and Samaria, Israel is still grappling with a Palestinian terror wave, but many innocent lives have been saved, says IDF officer.

But she would lead us — she’s proposing to lead the United States into yet another global war on terror, after the previous 20-year war on terror that this administration has been trying to wind down, with some success but some failures.

Instead of fighting terror, Abbas embraced the internationally-designated terror organization Hamas and insisted that the terrorists be allowed to participate in the PA elections.

Israeli air strikes killed six top members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, and more than a dozen other alleged terror group members, among 33 Gaza fatalities.

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The PA supports terror before the fact, rewards terror after the fact, and promises its people that it is their destiny to destroy an internationally recognised democratic UN member state, Israel.

The Pink Floyd rocker said the terror group was 'morally bound to resist occupation' on October 7 and accused Israel of 'making up stories' about the terror attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strikes an act of "wilful terror" and said that his country will "continue to work to unite the world in defence against Russian terror".

It's Israel using terror to displace a population, its settlers using terror to drive Arabs out of homelands, but of course these things are not to be spoken.

I wish I could write something a bit more uplifting, but sadly we are in the last year of Biden's (or whoever runs him) reign of terror, and with that is an emphasis on "terror," lest Le Bad Orange Man take back the White House in November.

M. Night Shyamalan has a penchant for delivering audiences twisted tales of terror, so whatever an audience might think about the terror that will offer us, it's safe to assume that this trailer is only the tip of the iceberg.

Pakistan-based terror mentors are using drug traffickers not only to fund terror groups but also to smuggle arms in this part of Jammu and Kashmir to sustain terrorism.

Comparing it with 26/11 terror attack, Maharashtra Chief Minister said, “The attack on JNU students on Sunday night reminded me of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh said that his terror group had turned down as much as $15 billion in development aid to Gaza two months ago which he claimed had been conditioned on demilitarizing the Gaza-based terror group.

India had carried out retaliatory surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads across the LoC, with the Army targeting terrorists preparing to infiltrate from PoK after the Uri terror attack in September 2016.

Police intelligence agents have arrested an alleged member of a terror group in Mindanao that is reportedly sympathetic to the international terror group Daulah Islamiyah in an entrapment operation in Quezon City.

Sources reveal that the ISI is also using many pro-Khalistan militants based in Pakistan for promoting terror and terror ideology by luring the youth, spreading hatred and propaganda, through social media.

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Common combinations with terror

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "terror" in a sentence?
An example: "We see thus, that there is a tendency towards right-wing linking of terror to a political agenda, left-wing linking of terror to a social agenda, and Palestinian political linking of terror to martyrdom and heroism." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "terror" from authentic English texts.
What does "terror" mean?
Terror means: Intense dread, fright, or fear.
What are synonyms of "terror"?
Common synonyms of "terror" include: panic, brat, soul, mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "terror" in Dutch?
"terror" translates to Dutch as: verschrikking.
How many example sentences with "terror" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "terror", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.