Examples of scare in a Sentence
Verb
You scared me. I didn't see you there.
Stop that, you're scaring the children.
Noun
There have been scares about the water supply being contaminated.
fired over their heads in order to throw a scare into them
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Chad Graff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
After scaring off the animal, one of the hikers, a physician, attempted to revive Kovatch, but did not find a pulse.
—Outside, 6 Jan. 2026
Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
But after a scare in the third quarter, the Warriors flipped the script, asserted control and cruised to a 119-97 victory over Portland to conclude the first half of the regular season.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Even after a free-agent spending spree last March, the 2025 Patriots roster wasn’t going to scare many teams.
—Noun
Bernthal and Angle's daughter faced a dangerous health scare in 2017 when she was diagnosed with encephalitis and fell into a coma.
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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