Sentence examples for trying to spook from inspiring English sources

"He was basically trying to spook her.

Madeline was trying to spook him, and you know what?

Olam's chief executive, Sunny Verghese, hosted a conference call with investors and the news media, saying the company was one of the most-shorted stocks in Singapore and accusing Muddy Waters of "spreading these baseless assertions and trying to spook the market so that they can profit from their short position".

The question is, how warm will the paper's support be for the eco-Conservative who, unlike Khan, seems less interested in engaging with London's business community than in trying to spook the suburbs with tall tales about some scary Khan-Corbynite fifth column?

Behind them is a crazy flotilla of gamblers in cars with screaming horns, leaning out to get a YouTube video of the race on their phones, aggressively sideswiping each other, and naturally trying to spook the opponent's horse so he crashes.

Alonso must know that playing psychological warfare with Raikkonen is like trying to spook a statue.

Visitors try to spook one another.

He tried to spook me with fictional advisories on escaped convicts.

It will be the first Game 7 between the old rivals since 1982, when the Celtics fans dressed as ghosts to try to spook the Sixers.

"Darkness," which crept into theaters nationwide on Christmas Day, tries to spook holiday revelers with a guessing game about which member of a handsome American family, relocated to Spain, will kill another.

For years, my mortgage adviser tried to spook me into buying insurance for my modestly mortgaged one-bedroom flat with various euphemistic scenarios, all of which I resisted until, during our third annual mortgage review, he cracked and blurted out: What if you get cancer?!