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Examples of terrorize in a Sentence
As a child she terrorized her younger siblings.
She was terrorized by nightmares.
Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions.
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In this week’s episode, the showrunner imparted wisdom on how to say goodbye to loved ones (The Boys way), terrorized viewers with man-eating supe sheep (confirming that the supes are not invincible), and brought in A-lister Will Ferrell for a cameo to save A-Train’s (Jessie T. Usher) life.
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Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
Just about every scary shot the movie has to offer appears in the trailer — including a super-freaky one where half a dozen Death Angels (as these all-ears aliens are called) race down a skyscraper to terrorize Samira and Eric.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 June 2024
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected concerns that the latest events in Dagestan signaled a return to the waves of violence that plagued Russia through the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Islamist militants from the North Caucasus region routinely terrorized civilians.
—Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 June 2024
Red Eye is a film that Alfred Hitchcock would have loved, the story of an average woman (Rachel McAdams) terrorized by the guy in the seat next to her on a red-eye flight to Miami.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024
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Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
Just about every scary shot the movie has to offer appears in the trailer — including a super-freaky one where half a dozen Death Angels (as these all-ears aliens are called) race down a skyscraper to terrorize Samira and Eric.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 June 2024
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected concerns that the latest events in Dagestan signaled a return to the waves of violence that plagued Russia through the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Islamist militants from the North Caucasus region routinely terrorized civilians.
—Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 June 2024
Red Eye is a film that Alfred Hitchcock would have loved, the story of an average woman (Rachel McAdams) terrorized by the guy in the seat next to her on a red-eye flight to Miami.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024
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“Terrorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorize. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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terrorize
verb
ter·ror·ize
ˈter-ər-ˌīz 
terrorized; terrorizing
1
: to fill with terror
2
: to force by threat or violence
Legal Definition
terrorize
transitive verb
ter·ror·ize
ˈter-ər-ˌīz
terrorized; terrorizing
: to inflict terror upon
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