Like a nightmare

Usage examples of scary.

He was careful not to use scary military terms such as amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor.

Only yesterday, after she had begun cautiously to hope that no one was left in Lodi but her, she had seen a gross and drunken man, a hippie man in a T-shirt that said I GAVE UP SEX AND DRINKING AND IT WAS THE SCARIEST 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE, wandering up the street with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

But I can see how a gal raised on blander batnahas stuffed with a sort of gray-green mush might find your hot tamales a scary surprise.

Either someone from Malik had contacted her mother on Earth or, scarier yet, Marion Drysdale had traveled to Lowth and back again.

Just before they got to the first of the wounded, Scriber said something more, the scariest words of the afternoon.

When the Menace shows up, I want to be out there already between them and our planets, with all the warranter ships and the TCA fleet, and I want to be too scary for anybody to attack us.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.

The tiger imagery was certainly scarier than bats, and so were the ravaged bodies I had seen.

In areas like this, the twilight daughters could be scarier and more dangerous than most of the more obvious monsters in the Nightside.

I can do illusions and that most of my illusions are nice and very easy to look at but that there are a few I can do that are scarier than all hell.

The members of this particular berserker horde were all the scarier, because they cunningly remained just out of visibility, concealing their shapes and sizes from him.

Fulla brought out some frightful beasts, they said, but Fulla herself was scarier still.

There is no scarier feeling than the realization that you have no idea what your characters are going to do next.

Scary as this place is, and for all his weird talk, Dane is the beautifulest man I ever saw.

Forests were indicated by irregular, green blobs, except for one marked out in scary black.