How to Use scary in a Sentence

scary

adjective
  • How scary are these lover boys?
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • Does that sound like a scary scene?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • And that is scary, that is risky.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Yeah, that jaguar was scary, though.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • And is that a scary way to pregame?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
  • What makes a movie too scary for sleep?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • First of all, that bus was scary, too.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That doesn’t mean the ghosts here aren’t scary.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There are adults who find these things too scary!
    — Christa Carmen, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s scary for Democrats.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • New York felt like a scary place.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 June 2026
  • That’s what’s so scary about Snapchat, right?
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The skin-to-skin scene at the end is so scary and strange.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Just be sure to keep it light; they’re not meant to be scary.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And that in itself is scary enough.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And that in itself is scary enough.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Read on to learn how to watch it for your next scary movie night.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The future feels like a scary place.
    — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That was the scariest thing about it.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • What could be scarier than that?
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • My second birth was still scary.
    — Sarah Hoover, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And this monster can be a scary one.
    — Daniel Kendzior, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That’s a scary moment for any chef.
    — Eric Ryan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • That looks scary with rate cuts coming.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • They get contained in this very scary way.
    — Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Fancy a scare or a not so scary jaunt?
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Genevieve is somebody who is very scary too.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The defense is as scary as any in the league.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Both are scary, the doctor said.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Getting hacked once is scary enough.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026

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