TERROR in a Sentence
Learn TERROR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
248 example sentences for TERROR, such as:
1. They fled from the city in terror.
2. My elder sister has a terror of fire.
3. She tried to fight down her rising terror.
4. He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
5. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived.
2. My elder sister has a terror of fire.
3. She tried to fight down her rising terror.
4. He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
5. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived.
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Meanings and Examples of TERROR
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terror
n. a very troublesome child
n. the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived.
2 When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror.
3 The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made twelve.
4 When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something so infallible as to inspire terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
5 The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.
6 Her eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled with a quiver of terror.
7 In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8 He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought was getting the upper hand.
9 He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he glanced around the room in a sort of terror.
10 He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he had arrived in turn.
11 Shouts despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more generals, an inexpressible terror.
12 This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
13 Some bits of dry heather, tossed by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror before something which was coming after.
14 This anguish was mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest.
15 In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook where terror lurked.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 People fled in terror as fire tore through the building.
2 They fled from the city in terror.
3 He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
4 She tried to fight down her rising terror.
5 I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane.
6 Nearly every new parent feels an amalgam of joy and terror.
7 Some women have a terror of losing control in the birth process.
8 His report was scathing about Loyalist and Republican terror groups.
9 My elder sister has a terror of fire.
10 One of the small children began to wail with terror.
11 "Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!" cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
12 Everywhere that freedom takes hold, and terror will retreat.
13 The consequence was that the smaller boys spent their days in terror and suffering.
14 What pushes this matter to the sublime is the reality the world is battling a terror threat which has given license to the authorities to treat ordinary citizens like chattel.
15 There are creatures so little, so weak, as to be easily restrained thus, and triumphed over; but the leviathan is not one of these: he is made to be the terror, not the sport and diversion, of mankind.