Sentence examples for blood-curdling from high-quality English sources.

• It is accompanying its campaign with increasingly blood-curdling rhetoric.

• It’s one of the more blood-curdling things about Facebook – the social media death notice.

• Together they traveled the world and found blood-curdling terror, mysterious women, and hidden danger.

• Law is not set by ministerial press conference or government publicity campaign – however mandatory or blood-curdling the language.

• So they added some less nuanced and more blood-curdling accusations of their own.

• But it is a rather different claim to the blood-curdling picture painted in the first dossier.

• Now that blood-curdling barbs are flying across the Pacific, Mr Fitzpatrick believes, “It’s time to have that hamburger.”

• But markets have become increasingly sceptical that Donald Trump will follow through on his most blood-curdling trade threats.

Use blood-curdling in a sentence.

• Other effects were done vocally; certain performers specialized in reproducing baby cries, animal sounds, or blood-curdling screams.

• Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.

• Defoe, responding to demand, provided them with an instant book, fashioned out of statistics, reminiscences, gossip, anecdote and blood-curdling dramatic detail.

• I literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself backwards with a loud blood-curdling scream into the media."

• As shadow chancellor, Osborne risked spooking the markets with his blood-curdling warnings of the imminent danger of “a proper sterling collapse, a run on the pound”.

• In local and parliamentary elections on March 16th, Arena brought back its blood-curdling anthem, but to no avail: the capital, San Salvador, fell to the FMLN alliance.

• Europe has plenty of problems but such exaggerations will become yet more lurid as the campaign enters its final weeks; expect more blood-curdling warnings of the chaos should Turkey join the EU.

• One is the prospect of an imminent test by North Korea of a nuclear bomb, perhaps accompanied by some military provocation towards South Korea, which it threatens in blood-curdling terms most days.

blood-curdling sentence examples

• Its intentions may become clearer after its presidential election next June, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is not thought to have much of a say in nuclear matters despite his occasional blood-curdling language, will have bowed out.

• Horror aficionado and film buff Matthew Sweet explores the productive rivalry between the two contenders for the heart and soul of British horror, in a blood-curdling tale of low budget, gore spattered one-upmanship that's full of chilling atmosphere and fun.

• Given the relationship between Russia and its neighbour North Korea, that response is not surprising, but addressing the UN, Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, called on China and Russia to use their influence with Pyongyang to “restrain” the regime and its “blood-curdling threats”.

• He said: “There could hardly be a clearer threat to world peace more demanding of a unified response than the activities of one member of the United Nations, North Korea breaking its treaty obligations, ignoring the will of this council, and making blood-curdling threats to inflict grievous harm on peoples of other countries.