Sentence examples for be able to scare from inspiring English sources

He wondered if Thomaston might be able to scare up some shoes in a pinch and mentioned how many thousand he needed.

She had to be able to scare the living daylights out of every man she met, but also to amaze them with her acumen.

In other words, the government may not be able to scare users away from Antigua through prosecution.

Severus has an extremely intimidating glare, and if you could master it, you would be able to scare a lot of people.

The Tories were able to scare people into thinking Labour needed to do a deal with the SNP.

That was more than organizers had been able to scare up at the New York Botanical Garden; they had to call in ringers from Brooklyn.

With less than a week to prepare, his dance selections were dictated by the costumes he was able to scare up: a pair of blue pants, a billowy white shirt and a secondhand toreador's jacket.

By buying government bonds on the open market, and being coy about how much it was spending, the E.C.B. was able to scare away short-sellers, who bet on falling bond prices, and reduce the risk premiums that investors were demanding for debt from the weakest countries.

Other times she had been able to scare him out of it herself, by weeping and howling and even banging her head on the floor, chanting, "It's not true, it's not true, it's not true," over and over.

Olivia's parents take her away, and Will, who with a look had been able to scare off the lion, submits to a new kind of fugue, in which his lost fantasy of a contented life with Olivia threatens his sanity.

Lastly, without using journalistic exhumation of false and non-existing emperor's new clothes, we do not believe we are able to scare anyone to the point of being silent in front of a blatant fake.