Words similar to hair-raising

Example sentences for: hair-raising

How can you use “hair-raising” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The frozen lake is also used by ice yachtsmen, whose wind-powered boats skate at hair-raising speeds across the frozen lake.
Mercifully, the end of the Cold War has brought an end to this type of hair-raising exchange.
Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
For example, bookcase, yearbook, summerhouse, windowbox, eyedoctor; hair-raising, finger-licking, God-fearing, man-eating; nose-picker, bottom-feeder, dive bomber, fighter escort .
The emotion aroused by the closure of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport Sunday night (to be replaced by the "modernistic marvel" of the huge new airport of Chek Lap Kok) came "close to rivalling the events of a year ago," when the former British colony was restored to China, according to the SCMP . Referring to the old airport's hair-raising, rooftop-scraping approach and its environmental deficiencies, the newspaper said that "the sheer audacity and improbability of the place so perfectly captured the spirit of the city that Hong Kong will seem lost without it."