Words similar to scares

Example sentences for: scares

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

No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.
What's puzzling is that Chatterbox scares very easily.
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.
The NYT off-lead scares with word that Iran, which wants a germ warfare capability to match Iraq's, has had some success recruiting former Soviet scientists who specialize in this area, by offering monthly salaries of $5,000--more than these Russians can earn in a year.
Bombs and bomb scares dominated the news.