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Example sentences for: scares

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

Even after the superpowers' 1962 showdown led to an easing of tensions, the planet still had a series of nuclear scares, such as the October 1973 nuclear alert--which happened on the detente-minded watch of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.
What's puzzling is that Chatterbox scares very easily.
It's not the shouting that scares them.
The news cycle on drug scares has become so fast that the backlash (accusing the new report of over-hyping the heart-disease link and ignoring the benefits of reduced obesity) is already underway.
As food scares go, it wasn't even especially sickening.