How to Use terror in a Sentence

terror

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  • These people have been living with terror and the threat of terror for many years.
  • This is where the terror-edge of being lost bends to leisurely joy.
    — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Over the next four years Kroupa became the target of a campaign of terror.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But since the document came out, terror seems to have changed sides once more.
    — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • Their faces and a few limbs are sticking out of the ice, and their expressions are that of sheer terror.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Jan. 2024
  • All that’s left is to glance over at the faces of your comrades, pale with terror at their own daring.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Heck, there’s even a makeover episode in which the girls go to a salon and express terror that the judges might chop their hair off.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • The only thing left was shaky footage that gave insight into their night of terror in the woods.
    — Rick Bentley, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And this war can be over quickly if the hostages will come home and Hamas will stop doing its terror.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2024
  • The couple’s terror comes as swatting incidents appear to be on the rise in the U.S.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • But soon after the 9/11 terror attacks, Ramos joined the Army Reserve.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • To ring in the '90s, Jamie dipped her toe into crime (instead of terror) films and starred as a rookie cop in Blue Steel.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The general consensus is for Israel to get the hostages out and then deal with the Hamas terror.
    — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • His name and the image appear to have been a prank or joke mocking a victim of racist terror.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Still, two pivotal events prompted her to take a sharp turn on the issue: the deadly terror attack in Paris in 2015, and the rise of Mr. Trump.
    — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • After the initial shock and terror, anger buzzed through my body, battling with the cold that numbed my fingers and toes.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
  • In one sense, Somalia has long been a footnote in the United States’ war on terror.
    — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The same was true with those Americans who, decades later, were guilty of abusing detainees in the war on terror.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The highlight of his experience was getting to break the news in 2011 that the terror mastermind had been killed by U.S. troops.
    — Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 July 2023
  • Lee Smith gives up all the people, those suffering the same terrors in Civil War, for one person — her younger Self.
    — Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The problem is everyone else in the kingdom, who have lived in terror of beings like her for centuries.
    — Vulture, 30 June 2023
  • Windows: how stupidly the intensity of glass returns to us the terror of love.
    — Lyn Hejinian Anne Boyer, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • The action is non-stop, and Penner shows that gun battles and car chases are not de riguer to create tension and terror.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This led to a terror attack in Mumbai and the development of the encounter squad, who attempted to take Ibrahim down.
    — Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • What if the fiction, in other words, was not the fantasy of contact, the terror felt by the boy who thought the dome might fall, but instead the naïve belief that worlds could be held apart?
    — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Passengers recounted scenes of terror and said many had feared for their lives.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 June 2024
  • Israel has been bombing Gaza this week in response to the Hamas terror attacks that killed at least 1,300 people in Israel.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The following day, the terror group published an image through Amaq purporting to show the four men who had attacked the complex.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Larry leads the uprising of insects, who offer their own brand of terror.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Deif is believed to have been one of the masterminds of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on southern Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza, now in its 300th day.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024

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