Sentence examples for scared witless from inspiring English sources

"She was scared witless".

We go to be scared witless.

They are scared witless, desperate not to get killed.

"When you see families" in such a situation, Williams noted, "they are scared" witless.

I was 23 and scared witless, but my thoughts came embroidered with bravado.

THE fragile government of Somalia is in deep trouble and, according to one of its officials, "scared witless".

By the end of the novel, I had scared myself witless.

The "real little boy from Norbury", scared almost witless by darkness and solitude, combated his "devils" by negotiating with them rather than by ignoring them.

My father forced me to come with him, and made me pull up a pike that scared me witless, and when I refused, he hit me in the face, and then I hammered a nail into my foot, and we were forced to go home.

It refers to a well-known involuntary muscle contraction in the lower body that occurs when you're piloting an airplane and are scared, er, witless).

Ever since Perry announced his candidacy back in August 2011, his poor debate skills made us laugh, his awkward campaign ads (especially this one) made us cringe, and some of his ultra-conservative Christian beliefs, combined with how often he expressed them, scared us witless.