Sentence examples for was spooked when from inspiring English sources

He told the bizarre tale of how the horse was spooked when a swallow flew into an equine spa and injured his front legs while trying to jump out of the water.

In a memory he recounted during a "Dateline" special on the case, he said his daughter was spooked when a license plate arrived in the mail for her Mustang.

In the following episode, he is spooked when he arrives home to find his wife, Alex, drinking wine with Ellie.

There is no immediate prospect of default (although markets may be spooked when Greece leaves the strictures of a bail-out programme for the first time in five years).

However, markets were spooked when minutes from the US Federal Reserve's January meeting released on Wednesday showed its officials are divided over how long to continue QE3, as its third round of quantitative easing is known.

Individual investors are spooked when a number of state pension plans reportedly are fleeing Putnam.

One reason for the price decline: investors were spooked when Cross Country, a competitor that provides traveling nurse services, unexpectedly cut its third-quarter projections last August.

Saracens boss Mark McCall said: "We had the clarity of thought not to be spooked when they scored two tries in three minutes as we put the ball in the right areas to put pressure on them.

While Smith says some men have been spooked when she's revealed her diagnosis, she gets it.

Just about anyone who remained after the first exodus was spooked into leaving when officials came door to door, urging people to either leave or to sign forms declaring that they were voluntarily staying and to identify their next of kin.

In a 2002 event, Silva Martin fell from Neville when he was spooked by a fence.