Sentence examples for scaring off from inspiring English sources

Heightened concerns about safety have driven recent cost estimates even higher, scaring off most private investors.

In its traditional markets, scandals were scaring off customers and demoralising the salesforce.

Some bidders have sought trademark protection in the hope of scaring off rivals.

The investment does not seem to be scaring off other dealers.

The same decline in Borders' business was apparently scaring off potential private equity and other bidders.

It most likely had the desired effect of scaring off many women.

One of them was grumbling about potential baby noises scaring off the animals.

Those losses are scaring off some big lessors, including two just this month.

Consequently, women tend to back down, for fear of scaring off a potential spouse.

But those kinds of prices don't seem to be scaring off buyers.

Investigating them had the effect of scaring off other Eritreans who might have come forward.