Sentence examples for were terrorised from inspiring English sources
verb
To inflict someone with terror; to terrify.
At first we were terrorised, thinking we were going to jail.
Fear and hysteria soon gained traction as politicians were terrorised by counter-terrorism.
Fighting against fascism was a liberating experience for people who were terrorised by Stalin.
He says that the oral invasion of Hurt's character was 'payback' for all those horror films in which sexually vulnerable women were terrorised by rampaging male monsters.
The jury heard that trouble started with a burglary in which three women were terrorised and it was suspected that £20,000 in drug money was taken.
In the mid-1990s, unmarried couples, and women who broke the Islamic dress code, were terrorised by vigilante patrols and floggings at the hands of the judiciary.
In Sierra Leone a rabble of drugged-up teenagers with Kalashnikovs were terrorising an entire country.
A Human Rights Watch report revealed how powerful successor groups of paramilitaries were terrorising poor neighbourhoods.
"They won't be terrorised.
