Sentence examples for bit of a terror from inspiring English sources

Our children visited often and discovered that their mother was loved but considered a bit of a terror.

HILARY DE VRIES HILARY DE VRIES: In "Sideways" you play a sexy, smart, wine-loving biker who is also a bit of a terror.

She barely flinched when read anonymous reviews of her temperament, including phrases like "a bit of a bully" and "terror on the bench," saying only that she asks "tough questions" during hearings.

If the British state, in whatever form - we are not quite sure which bit of the British state we are dealing with - wants to get that material, then I think they have to do it through a more satisfactory procedure than this bizarre bit of the Terror Act that relates solely to ports and transit lounges of airports.

For a neat freak like me, cooking with my young kids is an idea that fills me with a bit of terror.

"It brought a bit of terror in my chest.

There was also a bit of terror within.

Spreading a bit of terror among company directors could concentrate minds in the boardroom.

The Irish Republican Army, alas, seems like a bit of a pipsqueak from today's terror-saturated perspective.

"I like the idea that there has to be a little bit of terror," said Gormley.

It really was one of those combinations of exhilaration and kind of, oh, maybe a little bit of terror?