Sentence examples for scared us with from inspiring English sources

In the past, King has scared us with dead cats and rabid dogs, killer clowns and killer flus, sinister government agents, homicidal Plymouths and otherworldly Buicks, schoolyard bullies and strange men in yellow raincoats.

"This guy has really scared us" with his incendiary language, "there has been a lot of corruption," and the police have allowed a farm owned by her family to be seized by peasants.

When I was growing up, advertisements scared us with images of emaciated heroin addicts telling us, "I could give up tomorrow … couldn't I?" The "just say no" campaign was linked firmly to the international war on drugs, which was at its height in the 1980s and predated the health-focused warnings linked to HIV and Aids.

They scared us with terms like "nipple confusion".

Stop trying to scare us with abnormal conditions!

"They are trying to scare us with this kind of harassment," Mr. Mishra said.

First, the Department of Health does not want to scare us with big numbers.

"You can't scare us with iron beds and government porridge," he told the crowd.

Now the whole world knows you can't scare us with numbers.

The government wants to scare us with talk of hardship without spelling out the full horror of no-deal.

But, like Washington and Westminster, Hollywood has been better at scaring us with the threat of calamity than inspiring hope for the new.