Sentence examples for terrifying words from inspiring English sources

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One of the barmaids will bring us a complimentary plate of bar snacks, which are fried and bulky and delicious and will stave off hunger pangs until much later, when terrifying words like "curry" and "kebab" may be employed.

Frequently terrifying words, some readers will feel; but the author's post-modernist bag of tricks also contains a whip-crack narrative skill that's as reminiscent of Dickens as it is of Roberto Bolaño.

One child in five whose parents hear the terrifying words "your child has cancer" will die.

After hearing those terrifying words, we were in essence sent out to drift like a boat cut loose from its dock.

The new most terrifying words, Mr. Colbert said, are: "I'm from the government and I will work for food".

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help,'" he famously said.

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1975's Radio-Activity once heralded a bright nuclear future but now talks of skin cancer, terrifying when words like "Chernobyl" are firing from the stage.

One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamist abductors said the kidnapping was too terrifying for words and she was too scared to go back to school.

There are no more poignant and terrifying 3 words than these.

"The situation is awful, horrendous, terrifying — any word you want to use," Feshbach said.

However, we feel that patients should be informed enough that they are able to understand their disease and that the formerly terrifying, nebulous word "cancer" loses its taboo status!

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