Example sentences for: spooked

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

  • Finally, a group of odds `n' sods: nickel (the devil's metal), from modern German Kupfernickel copper demon: Nickel is a diminutive of Nicklaus , similar to the English Old Nick, a term for the Devil, so called because nickel was considered a contaminant when found in copper ore but in the early days of mining--as if the metal were spooked.

  • In his NYT column, Paul Krugman asks, "Why was the market so easily spooked?

  • Prudie is fascinated that the problem you're concerned with is your neighbor's knowing about your girlfriend . Usually a man is spooked if his significant other knows about the neighbor!

  • A WP "Metro" section story reports that residents of Burkittsville, Md.--home of the Blair Witch in the eponymous film--are thoroughly spooked by the onset of Halloween.

  • Both mags rehash now-familiar Blair Witch trivia: The filmmakers sent the actors into the woods for eight days with cameras and only a thin plotline for direction, then spooked their stars with nighttime raids.


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