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Definitions in simple English

scary

Scary things are things that scare you. Lots of people think spiders and ghosts are very scary.

scary

(= shuddery) provoking fear terror a scary movie the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge

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Simple sentences

It was scary.
Was it scary?
The wind sounds scary, like screaming ghosts.
Scary movies will frighten the children.
That horror movie was very scary and I couldn't sleep after watching it.
The world outside is very scary.
In a scary scene, it never fails that there is either an owl hooting or wolves howling under the full moon.
Nightmares are scary.
I don't like scary movies!!!
My girlfriend doesn't like scary movies.
When everybody's crossing on a red, it's not so scary.
Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.
It is still a little scary.
I have never read such a scary novel.
For man, there is no beast more scary than man.
If you want to hear a scary story, I'll tell you about a dream I had a few weeks ago.
A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life.you're stuck in it.
I'm going to watch a scary movie.
What's your favorite scary movie?
That sounds scary.
It will be scary.

Movie subtitles

What's so scary about that?
How scary it is at the moment of your death.
This, like, this emotion stuff can be scary.
It's scary, uh.
I need everyone to know how scary this is.
Get a bunch of scary-looking guys together.
Or take the new instructions about the explosives, and stealing poison from drugstores - that's scary business.
But there's a very scary thought, if you come to consider it.
Performing in front of thousands of people tonight, now that's scary.
It's rather scary the first time, though, isn't it?
They're sort of scary, but they're so big and clumsy, they hate to take wing.
It's scary, Tom.
What's so scary that you wouldn't tell me?
I'm not afraid. Cows aren't scary.
It's scary enough without playing funny tricks.
It's less scary than the guillotine, but equally defamatory.
Oh. ls a bit scary down here.
Junior's not going to drag me into another one of those scary pictures.
Son, I think that story is a little too scary for this time of night.
Your voice is really scary.
Cows aren't scary.
It's a joke, they're not scary.
Leopoldo worked as usual. He, in turn, cultivated a goatee. It's scary.
It was a little. scary.
Do I look that scary?
Once I put my foot out there, it's not that scary.
Ooh, that was scary.
That sounds scary.
Listen now. The enemy is scary.
It's scary.
He was scary-looking, but he wasn't really all bad.
When you kiss somebody for serious it's kind of scary, ain't it?
How scary!
You radiate a certainty that's scary.

News and current affairs

But the level that computers have reached already is scary enough.
How Scary Is the Bond Market?
Working closely with others who think differently can be scary and frustrating.
Measured this way, the scary eco-crunch disappears.
The FSF was not a scary creature, and the individual regulators, national and international, were largely left to their own devices, with all of the unhappy consequences with which we have become acquainted.
Indeed, the growing disconnect between increasingly aggressive policy actions and strains in the financial market is scary.
In the absence of strong policies, it is too easy to think of scary scenarios in which depressed output and troubles in the financial system feed on each other, leading to further large drops in output.
The movie shows scary pictures of the consequences of the sea level rising 20 feet (seven meters), flooding large parts of Florida, San Francisco, New York, Holland, Calcutta, Beijing, and Shanghai.
It's scary.
An unbelievable one-third of our children believe that they don't have a future because of scary global warming stories.
Scary climate stories rely on a simple narrative: more CO2 means more environmental damage and death - and the only way to address it is to cut carbon emissions.
When the chips are down, it is far less scary to save a megabank than to let it go.
This is not terrifying or even particularly scary - 30 centimeters is how much the sea rose over the last 150 years.
This is scary, although not without historical precedent.
That is larger than the Chinese surplus has ever been - and scary because it subtracts net demand from the rest of Europe and the world economy.
It's scary. Little real value is created.
So much for scary fairytales.
There were some positively scary names for potential Fed chairman floating out of the White House, and I, for one, had no confidence in the outcome.
One narrative is wrong; the other is scary.
The consequences of this combination of uncoordinated responses would be widespread, scary, and bordering on chaos.

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