Sentence examples for 1 scare from inspiring English sources

Beating around the bush or dodging the subject will (1): scare your friend or family member ; or (2): give the impression that you're ashamed.

The Sixers ruined the Lakers' unbeaten playoff run in Game 1, scared them in Game 2, and just seemed spent last night.

The Y2K scare at the turn of the century moved IT risk high up the list of worries.

I rode out the Y2K scare without an AA battery or box of matches in the house.

Evidently inspired by occurrences like the Y2K scare and the California power shortage, the play was written last year.

First was the Y2K scare, which told them that their systems might be fuddled by the date change on January 1st 2000.

It was 1998, at the beginning of the Y2K scare, and she did a story about Christians who were stockpiling food for the millennial meltdown.

B6 SCARE IN BERLIN -- The offices of the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, were sealed off after a letter containing suspicious white powder was delivered.

It may seem silly now, but you can't overestimate the power that the Y2K scare had on the apocalypse fever of evangelicals.

The Y2K scare was a huge focus because it was both imminently close and so mysterious even the nonreligious believed it was a legitimate threat.

Then came the Y2K scare last summer.