Sentence examples for mock terror from inspiring English sources

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Blume gasps in mock terror: "That is so not the way it was done then".

"IT'S the moment every actor actually fears," Matt Damon said, looking around a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in mock terror.

A moment of mock terror came at a tense moment in Act 3 when giant forks came down from above, threatening to reduce the characters to hors d'oeuvres.

These mock terror exercises are played according to elaborate rules, called the "design basis threat," that in the view of skeptics favor the defense.

The Dutch government is looking for 10,000 people to take part in a mock terror attack on Amsterdam's soccer stadium, the Interior Ministry said.

Others pointed out that the authorities had warned a "mock terror drill will be carried out" in posts on Facebook on Sunday night – but the message was clearly missed by many.

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In the otherwise realistic mock-terror scenario, the marijuana growers' "red cell" set off bus and car bombs as distractions, took over the dam with three hostages, and then "threatened to flood the Sacramento River by rolling open the drum gates atop the dam," according to the paper.

Isis has been lampooned on state television, which spent a reported $750,000 on a series mocking the terror group.

A child afraid of the dark would not be comforted if his parents mocked his terror.

It also has fomented a rivalry with al-Qaida, with IS leaders mocking the terror network for failing to stop Houthi advances in Yemen.

After she in turn died in 1514, her son wrote "This my pious Mother ... often had the plague and many other severe and strange illnesses, and she suffered great poverty, scorn, contempt, mocking words, terrors, and great adversities.

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