Example sentences for: intimidate

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

  • 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."

  • David Graham—who testified at a US Senate Finance Committee hearing on rofexocib (Vioxx), the FDA, and Merck [1]—said that there was a conspiracy by senior management at the FDA “to intimidate me ahead of the Senate testimony.”

  • --The term "hate crime" doesn't get at what I think is the real issue: that certain kinds of crimes are not just aimed at a particular victim but are meant to intimidate or "send a message" to a whole class of people, whether to stay out of certain neighborhoods, hide their sexuality, stop performing abortions, or whatever.

  • She's the Indian babe who led that Eastern Religions seminar you took: different enough to charm, similar enough not to intimidate.

  • Even the detective hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to intimidate bimbos was a "People's Detective"!


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