Example sentences for: intimidate

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

  • These sponsors must never have the power to veto or delay publication of results—or to intimidate the researchers.

  • For that reason, and because they will relish the author's excoriating criticism of the shamanistic rhetoric employed by lawyers to intimidate them, lay people who are addicted to the lore of words will find the book as a whole not less fascinating than do the practitioners.

  • The answer, from Richard Clarke, the president's counterterrorism coordinator, is: "To extort us, to intimidate us, to get us to abandon our foreign policy."

  • How can society maintain civility when everybody is "free" to define personal morality on their own terms, while some members of society are eager to use this "freedom" to intimidate, exploit, and prey on others?

  • Society people intimidate her--"Despite my own background and actually having been born there, I always felt like a country girl in New York"--no matter that her parents had introduced her to high society while she was still in diapers, and that she had frolicked with the Paleys, the Whitneys, and the Mellons as an adult.


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