sheer terror
Frequency: 7.815.2 per million words
Emphasizes the great intensity of the fear.
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Examples (10)
- The sheer terror she felt when she saw him.
- He froze, paralyzed by sheer terror as the creature approached.
- The sudden explosion filled everyone with sheer terror.
- In that moment of freefall, all I could feel was sheer terror.
- They watched in sheer terror as the building collapsed.
- A scream of sheer terror escaped her lips.
- The child's eyes were wide with sheer terror after the nightmare.
- It was a situation that inspired sheer terror in the bravest of soldiers.
- Overcome by sheer terror, he couldn't move a muscle.
- The movie scene depicted the victims' sheer terror vividly.