Sentence examples for in sheer terror from inspiring English sources

Yet each moment was taken in sheer terror.

Nightmares began after several months, she said, jolting her awake in sheer terror — "sweat, my heart beating fast".

"I remained frozen in sheer terror, silent and unflinching, hoping he would not act," Mr. Alpert writes.

As I walked out into the garden I could see the bird, wings pressed against the glass panes of our greenhouse, beak open, in sheer terror.

They do well to stick close: I once watched a family of moorhens freeze as a kestrel appeared above the narrow channel where they had taken refuge, looking up in sheer terror as the predator hovered momentarily overhead, before moving on in search of other prey.

This may be a silly little thing, Apple may win, In Icons may decline to faint dead away in sheer terror -- I don't really know.

One, taken Jan . 1 , 1966showed mothers and their children in a flooded trench, peering up in a sheer terror that crossed the decades.

As the show progresses, the unease present in even a relatively placid Hopper painting increases, culminating in the sheer terror expressed by George Tooker.

Three months later, I found myself in the legendary (now long-defunct) RCA Studio A in Midtown, in a state of sheer terror.

The younger they are, the easier to brainwash and keep in thrall by sheer terror.

And to this day, the most frightening film I've ever seen in a theater was still the original Alien; the emotion that film provoked in me was sheer terror.