terror

Definition:
1. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
2. A person who inspires fear or dread.
3. A very troublesome child.

Use 'terror' in a sentence:

• 1. I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
• 2. We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
• 3. Her eyes were transfixed with terror.
• 4. She lives in terror of losing her job.
• 5. The day of terror ended after police used teargas and stormed the house.
• 6. Childbirth now held fewer terrors for her than it once had.
• 7. It can be concluded that the passage is most probably part of a terror story.
• 8. The terrors of the night were past.
• 9. The principle of hierarchy does not equate to totalitarian terror.
• 10. The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car.
• 11. He is stupefied with grief [terror].
• 12. People ran for the exits, screaming out in terror.
• 13. The shouts changed to screams of terror.
• 14. In terms of your emotional state, I remember a see-saw of panic and terror.
• 15. Colin answered as if neither the doctor's alarm nor Mrs. Medlock's terror were of the slightest consequence.
• 16. Absolute terror possessed her.
• 17. The children watched in stark terror.
• 18. The sound of gun shots struck terror into the children's hearts.
• 19. Several bombs went off one after another, and she screamed in terror.
• 20. I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane.
• 21. His joy has flown, for fear and terror take its place.
• 22. Its Campaign to Protect Rural England struck terror into many local Conservative parties.
• 23. As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.
• 24. Their ideal society collapsed around them into the Terror and then into the Counterrevolution.
• 25. No, never heard of that, but my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing.
• 26. He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
• 27. Surely he must have fainted; maybe he was dead; maybe his heart had burst under terror and excitement.
• 28. My relief reverted to terror when I opened The Watchman's Rattle, a book by the biologist and business leader Rebecca Costa.
• 29. The consequence was, that the smaller boys spent their days in terror and suffering and their nights in plotting revenge.
• 30. Numb with terror, she stared at the departing marauders.
• 31. The very name of the enemy struck terror into their hearts.
• 32. I froze with terror as the door slowly opened.
• 33. It makes providing funds for terror activities a criminal offense and would freeze bank accounts of those who sponsor terrorism.
• 34. A look of terror flashed across his face.
• 35. These street gangs have become the terror of the neighbourhood.
• 36. Her previous calm gave way to terror.
• 37. What sets Jackson's family apart is that his father used his reign of terror to train his children as musicians and dancers.
• 38. The commanders accused him of carrying out a reign of terror.
• 39. Sue screamed, not loudly, more in surprise than terror.
• 40. Her eyes were wild with terror.
• 41. The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.
• 42. The army had perfected the use of terror as a means of controlling the population.
• 43. He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
• 44. People fled from the explosion in terror.
• 45. I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in a plane.
• 46. Their kids are real little terrors.
• 47. Some women have a terror of losing control in the birth process.