Words similar to hair-raising

Example sentences for: hair-raising

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Seated in a flight simulator shaped like the famous time-traveling DeLorean car in the films, you will be taken on a hair-raising chase through time and space.
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.
The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik is the lone American enthusiast: "Part of the fun, of course, lies in the hair-raising displays of Victorian energy.
Mercifully, the end of the Cold War has brought an end to this type of hair-raising exchange.
The frozen lake is also used by ice yachtsmen, whose wind-powered boats skate at hair-raising speeds across the frozen lake.