Sentence examples for been scared straight from inspiring English sources

And he would have been scared straight long ago.

It seemed as if he had been scared straight by the prospect of being sent out of New York.

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I had abandoned prose writing somewhere in college, having been scared straight out of the writing habit via the tender ministrations of visiting New Yorker short story virtuosi creative writing instructors and my own mountainous insecurities and fears.

Moreover, his most impressive postseason campaign, when the Yankees won it all in '09, came several months after he had been outed by SI for his previous drug use and would have seemingly been scared straight.

You would be scared straight after seeing what might await you in prison, wouldn't you?

There was no great epiphany, no moment of being scared straight, no hitting bottom, despite how low she sank.

All this, just so your teenager might be scared straight enough to forgo sex for a few extra months.

It's not hard to imagine a small child watching Hellbound Train and being scared straight for life.

But that's not a fair way to pose the question, I don't think, because the only thing you had here back then was Scared Straight".

"Inclinations" takes place in a camp where homosexual boys are scared straight, but where all the inmates are actually straight kids pretending to be gay to extort money from their conservative parents.