Sentence examples for was in terror from inspiring English sources

("I was in terror," Lytton wrote to Leonard Woolf, "lest she would kiss me").

Lily, who shouted at the youths to desist, was in terror of her life.

Arriving catatonically knackered, barely able to utter a syllable, I was in terror at the sight of the programme: dawn runs, at least five hours' cardio a day, an alarming amount of "burpees" (squat thrusts).

And when the Iran-contra scandal broke in November 1986, according to the then attorney-general, Edwin Meese, the whole administration was in terror of impeachment so much so that it broke the law by covering up all possible links between the scandal and the president.

"We have been in terror for 10 years.

"Everyone in this city seems to be in terror of the gun lobby.

People were in terror because there were dead on the streets".

The cattle are also zombies and the zombies are in terror lest the people of the village understand this.

I imagine how she must have been in terror and pain and suffering, devastated by what was going on.

But yeah, you have very upset times and every night you go to bed you're in terror.

Often they sound infantilized: they are in terror of her temper, her decisions, her growing reputation as a drunk and the rigors of her technique and repertory.