Sentence examples for scared from high-quality English sources.

• I was scared.

• “They are scared.

• “Everybody is scared.

• Scared makes you alive.

• I would be scared, too!

• I was scared for my life.

• "I was scared, I took a chance.

• "They're saying they're scared.

Use scared in a sentence.

• “I’m scared of the world,” he says.

• “They are very scared because of the ban.

• Otherwise, no one would know why the duck scared your friend.

• I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much.  

• But they told me, and I liked him, and I’m not scared to say what I like,” he said.

• “I have to tell you that I’m scared,” he said, at the start of his speech announcing his candidacy.

• So who would make an effort to be scared, and—cough, cough; sorry, just clearing our throat—in a confined public space, no less?

• He was twenty, two years older than Harley, but he’d been too scared to even consider calling his father, not scared of punishment but scared of disappointing him.

scared sentence examples

• "When I say I'm scared and explain how a situation makes me feel scared, you can only relate to it in how you feel scared even if it's an entirely different sensation.

• Leeks goes further: “A haunted house touches on all phobias – if you’re scared of snakes, you’re scared of dogs, you’re scared of insects, you’re scared of being in close quarters, and various things like that.

• Asked if she was scared to have Covid, the nun told France’s BFM television: “No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die … I’m happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else – join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother.”

• "He yelled: 'I'm not scared of radioactive Chinese people' and started pointing at me, shouting 'you people shouldn't be here, get out of this country, I'm not scared of this virus that you people brought over,'" the Chinese Canadian, who has lived in New York for over 15 years, said.