Sentence examples for a terrified man from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a terrified man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is experiencing fear or anxiety in a particular situation.
Example: "As the storm raged outside, a terrified man huddled in the corner of the room, clutching his phone tightly."
Alternatives: "a frightened man" or "an anxious man."

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It showed a terrified man with downcast eyes.

Another, found this year on a confiscated mobile phone and later leaked onto the internet, shows the final minutes of a terrified man and child being blown up by dynamite strapped to their chests.

Captain Duke stretched out his hand to a terrified man and in slow but inexorable motion the tender rose on its side and sent him and ten or twelve more people bellowing and clawing over the side.

The boy heard a commotion and, looking up from the book, saw a terrified man being frog-marched down the street.

The court also heard that Ahmadzai repeatedly attacked and mugged a terrified man at a cash machine where he was acting as if to push a gun into the victim's neck.

He then remembered hearing the dim, far-off gun again, a vision of a terrified man standing before him, then yet another shot.

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The picture shows a bearded, terrified man on his knees, draped in a prayer shawl, his arms up in supplication, as Nazi soldiers stand around with mocking expressions, truncheons and rifles at the ready.

I never knew Laimonias Betins as a strong former construction worker, only as an angry and probably terrified man in a wheelchair.

The first thing he heard was music: beneath him a group of CND protesters was marching down the street, oblivious to the terrified man suspended a few storeys above them.

To make matters worse, in 2002 a combination of torrential rain and fire-retardant chemicals caused the red carpet to bubble and foam, which in turn caused Kate Winslet to pull a face like a terrified old man.

Until you see a video of Iraqi insurgents taking a terrified, hogtied man and sawing off his head with a butcher knife, you don't know what "blood-curdling" truly means.

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