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Example sentences for: scary

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

"That book" is the referent, but other nouns rush to and fro like big, scary buses.
In parts of the Southwest, children were disciplined by parents who narrated scary stories of The Black Hand.
Pundits can't resist noting the "scary prescience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) of Barry Levinson's acclaimed satire about a fake war orchestrated to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal.
Can I pull it back a notch, or am I doomed to come off as a scary bitch?
My daughter and I were watching The Wizard of Oz over the holidays (which I'm sure Team Carlson wasn't, since it was on TV), and it occurred to me that there's a bit of Oz in Safire: He seems all-powerful and scary, someone you have to bow before to curry favor, but when you pull the curtain back he's just a nebbishy guy who used to write speeches for Nixon.