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Example sentences for "terrorise"

Lexicographically close words:
territorie; territories; territorio; territory; terror; terrorised; terrorising; terrorism; terrorist; terroristic
  1. The above are all cloth-bound, well-made books, and are carefully selected for their interest and character.

  2. I don't want to terrorise you," he said sulkily.

  3. Isn't it a coward's part to terrorise a woman?

  4. They were an unpaid mutinous rabble, who respected no distinction of nationality, faith, or sex, and their function was utterly to terrorise the Flemings into abject submission.

  5. The Navy believed the torpedoing of the Lusitania would so frighten and terrorise the world that neutral shipping would become timid and enemy peoples would be impressed by Germany's might on the seas.

  6. U-53 failed to terrorise the United States, but it proved to the Admiralty that excursions to American waters were feasible.

  7. In that case it is extremely probable that they will make use of the air-ship to terrorise the town into surrender, and as soon as she takes the air we must make a dash for her, and either take her or blow her to pieces.

  8. The forces of the State, with law and justice behind them, must overawe any undisciplined body of men attempting to terrorise the body politic in defence of fancied rights or the redress of imaginary wrongs.

  9. It may easily be imagined how bodies of two or three hundred men, well armed and mounted, could terrorise a thinly-populated country.

  10. You take advantage of your strength to terrorise men who are not street acrobats, and professional weight-lifters.

  11. Now I am going to take advantage of this, to terrorise you," and he produced a small revolver from his pocket.

  12. He trades on this to bully and terrorise all who do not become his servants.

  13. His warning the other day was no idle attempt to terrorise me?

  14. Suffice it to say that he has revealed to me the ingenious manner in which plots have been formed in order to terrorise me, and your inhuman method of sending hundreds of innocent ones into exile, merely in order to obtain my favour.

  15. The Government sent to all the great wholesale news agents a letter which was designed to terrorise and bully them into refusing to handle the paper or to sell it to the retail news agents.

  16. One was to be used to terrorise Logan's executors, to whom Heddilstane, but not Rentoun, was in debt.

  17. It is, of course, a forgery by Sprot, to enable Chirnside to terrorise his creditors, Logan's executors.

  18. It is curious that Germany should now be paying the same amount to terrorise a few working quarters that it paid five years ago to terrorise the world.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrorise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.