Sentence examples for terror up from inspiring English sources

As promised, an unsavory character soon approached me, sending a hot tingle of terror up my legs to my ears.

"I have seen this war on terror up close and personal, and we are winning this war on all fronts," Mr. Kerik said in typical remarks at a campaign appearance in Portland, Me., on Oct. 22.

W. F. Main: Parent in court behind drop in bawling out terrors (up rear; hidden).

Then, the collective experiences of grief and terror were up front.

Disturbed by the process they called it 'nights of terror' Sometimes up to a hundred bodies were burned at once.

SHERMAN I wanted to capture what it felt like for me before I had a child, a portrait of that terror leading up to becoming a father.

Reminding yourself that your society and its values cannot be shaken is part of the war against terror: standing up for America matters.

The machinery of terror set up by Papa Doc, reinforced by tontons macoutes ("bogeymen") armed with sugar-hacking machetes, obviously held good.

The question of complicity on the part of Jacqueline's family in Charles Taylor's reign of terror comes up in a serpentine way at different points.

The young man's nervous fingers leafed through the magazine hastily, mechanically, while hot waves of terror welled up inside him, then subsided, leaving him cold.

The Coconut Crunchos commercial slips between play and terror, setting up the expectations of an after-school special but never delivering a lesson or catharsis.