How do you use the word "terror" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "terror" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "terror": One student says the purge is still going on in China and terror is widespread. Helen shrieked with terror.

Terror Meaning

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounIntense dread, fright, or fear.

nounThe action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

Sentence Examples

One student says the purge is still going on in China and terror is widespread.

Helen shrieked with terror.

The frightened boy's voice was shaking with terror.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

panic threat scourge

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The sudden explosion in the quiet town caused a wave of ____ among the residents.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The sudden loud explosion filled the people in the crowded street with ____ and confusion early this afternoon today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme." — 1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb:

""How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."" — 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare." — 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9:

"The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!" — 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:

"The terrors of the storm" — 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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