Sentence examples for attempt to terrify from inspiring English sources
They lavish congressmen with campaign contributions and then attempt to terrify everyone that jobs (ie building bombs that kill people) will dry up if Congress doesn't increase military spending each year.
"But the campaign of bullying -- the attempt to terrify Greeks by cutting off bank financing and threatening general chaos, all with the almost open goal of pushing the current leftist government out of office -- was a shameful moment in a Europe that claims to believe in democratic principles," Paul Krugman wrote recently in the New York Times.
Don't frighten very young children with disturbing, detailed discussions of the crucifixion or attempt to terrify children into compliance or repentance.
When experienced photobomber J-Law attempted to terrify Taylor Swift.
In September 2008, despite the corporate media's attempts to terrify Americans into believing that an economic doomsday would occur without the bailout, Americans still opposed it.
"We denounce the attempts of some to terrify people and to obstruct the trajectory of the revolution," he said.
Having eaten my way through Puebla, I decided it was high time to terrify the natives by attempting to cook a mole myself.
That does not seem to terrify him.
Spiders used to terrify psychiatrist Russell Green.
