terror

[ˈterər]

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.