Explore Terrorize through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like terrorise or scare. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Terrorize meaning
- To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.
- To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
Synonyms of Terrorize
Using Terrorize
- The main meaning on this page is: To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify. | To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
- Useful related words include: terrorise, scare, fright, frighten.
- In the example corpus, terrorize often appears in combinations such as: to terrorize, terrorize the, and terrorize.
Context around Terrorize
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Terrorize
- In this selection, "terrorize" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, players, populations and vulnerable stand out and add context to how "terrorize" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allowed to terrorize the community and ares would terrorize the warrior. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "terrorize" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with terrorize
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The enemy continues shelling, continues to terrorize the peaceful population. (10 words)
He noted that criminals will not be allowed to terrorize the community. (12 words)
Sleeper cells still terrorize populations nearly four years after the group was defeated in Syria. (15 words)
Duriel could have even been given a status similar to and act as a random spawn to terrorize players within the game's dungeons, which would have been a much more fitting role for the character than what he was given. (41 words)
New York officials said between 2019 and 2022, the street gangs teamed up together to “terrorize” their Belmont neighborhood and surrounding areas by “committing indiscriminate shootings against” their rivals. (29 words)
But instead of picking up with the original cast, the show is pivoting to an anthology format, so the sophomore outing will terrorize a brand new cast of characters. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
But it’s also about the titular giant mechanical menaces that one villain or another uses to terrorize the world.
By flying fighter jets and bombers close by and firing missiles into the ocean, the administration of Xi has stepped up its efforts to terrorize the island.
Duriel could have even been given a status similar to and act as a random spawn to terrorize players within the game's dungeons, which would have been a much more fitting role for the character than what he was given.
He noted that criminals will not be allowed to terrorize the community.
It feeds off of the fears of its victims, and it takes the shape of those fears in order to terrorize them.
Kevin Allen Hagans, 40, of Laguna Beach was arrested on suspicion of a felony robbery and threatening crime with an intent to terrorize.
New York officials said between 2019 and 2022, the street gangs teamed up together to “terrorize” their Belmont neighborhood and surrounding areas by “committing indiscriminate shootings against” their rivals.
Sleeper cells still terrorize populations nearly four years after the group was defeated in Syria.
The couple wouldn’t have had to terrorize a bunch of people much less shoot someone.
The enemy continues shelling, continues to terrorize the peaceful population.
The spooky 1993 film centers around the Sanderson Sisters – Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) – who terrorize the children of Salem.
The symbiote's insatiable lust for power and its willingness to terrorize the dwarves to get what it wants makes for an interesting dynamic.
As the Hundred Acre Wood characters venture out to terrorize the town of Ashdown, audiences can brace themselves for more murderous mayhem.
Both the warrior queen Callisto () and the god of war Ares () would terrorize the Warrior Princess over the course of the show.
But instead of picking up with the original cast, the show is pivoting to an anthology format, so the sophomore outing will terrorize a brand new cast of characters.
His dark power allows him to exact revenge on humans, taking many forms to terrorize and slaughter them.
It also reveals that analysts like Rev. Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam recognize this as a component of a larger strategy to destabilize and terrorize vulnerable groups.
Liberia has seen years of widespread drug abuse among young people, many of whom have abandoned schools to live in cemeteries or terrorize peaceful citizens.
One way the filmmakers made it seem more real was to deprive and terrorize their actors.
Pro-Hamas and anti-Jewish demonstrations are meant to terrorize, muzzle and isolate anyone who is Jewish or who supports Israel.
Common combinations with terrorize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to terrorize 34×
- terrorize the 19×
- and terrorize 6×
- terrorize their 3×
- who terrorize 3×
- terrorize and 3×
- terrorize his 2×
- terrorize black 2×
- they terrorize 2×
- terrorize us 2×