Sentence examples for try to terrify from inspiring English sources

"This time they have killed a few monkeys, such as Xue Manzi, to try to terrify the chickens," he said.

He said Russian authorities had changed their tactics in dealing with large businesses, promising "that there would be no more masky shows, that they will not try to terrify us".

It is spoken by a lightning-rod salesman, out hawking his wares in the middle of a storm, to try to terrify a potential customer into an impulse purchase.

"They are trying to terrify the people who want to protect their areas.

But he says that he never intended to do more than that, and was simply trying to terrify Lurie into empathy.

Protesters held banners that read "Enough Killing!" and accused the Syrian regime of trying to terrify people into submission by stirring up sectarian strife.

"There are a lot of evil countries out there, Iran for one, who are trying to terrify the world by developing nuclear weapons," he said.

THE story of my first music purchase over the Internet is not at all pretty, particularly the part where I tried to terrify my father with a rubber cockroach.

You can't help but feel, though, that given the opportunity and the subject matter, Muse might have tried to terrify us a little more with their aerial display.

So is there really any urgency in his new package - which raises worrying questions about civil liberties - or is Labour just playing the Bush card and trying to terrify the public into voting for it while pulling the rug from under the Tories?... "This is thin gruel for a party that came to office amid such high hopes... Frenzy, frenzy, frenzy.

The football match crowd at Hampden were renowned for creating the Hampden Roar and trying to terrify opposing teams.