Scary

//ˈskɛə.ɹi//

"Scary" in a Sentence (24 examples)

When everybody's crossing on a red, it's not so scary.

I always use the steps, but...it's scary how they wobble...so I'd like you to hold them steady.

Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.

It's scary how little consideration she gives to being a woman.

'Childhood friends' are scary.

'Number-withheld' calls are scary, it's best not to answer them.

"I fell asleep?" "Totally." "Really?" "You were very restless, did you have a scary dream?"

Didn't your mother teach you anything? When you meet with scary people always protect your wallet and your arsehole!

It is still a little scary.

I have never read such a scary novel.

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The tiger's jaws were scary.

She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.

He watched Conjuring but it was too scary for him.

Well, we swarmed along down the river road, just carrying on like wildcats; and to make it more scary the sky was darking up, and the lightning beginning to wink and flitter, and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves.

“[…] How scary it is to know that everyone I love depends on me! I’m afraid I’ll do something wrong.”

Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder and scarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point.

The biggest, scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It's about time, Jones.”

Linda changed her hair, and it’s scary how much she looks like her mother.

“Whist! whist!” said Natty, in a low voice, on hearing a slight sound made by Elizabeth, in bending over the side of the canoe, in eager curiosity; “’tis a sceary animal, and it’s a far stroke for a spear. […]”

“She’s cursed,” said the skipper; “speak her fair: I’m scary always to see her shake Her wicked head, with its wild gray hair, And nose like a hawk, and eyes like a snake.”

And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.

The two brothers stood over the dead rat […]. “Please, Bigger, take ’im out,” Vera begged. “Aw, don’t be so scary,” Buddy said.

At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]

[T]he main reason I don't want to give her a GA is she's so scary fat!

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