hair-raising

Example Sentences

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For 15 hair-raising minutes, the pilots struggled to evade a half-dozen surface-to-air missiles, spraying countermeasures and executing a series of high-G maneuvers.

From The Wall Street Journal

England have a recent history of hair-raising starts to World Cups.

From BBC

His writing is sinewy and unsparing, as enchanting and hair-raising as the forest itself.

From The Wall Street Journal

Only Samantha Hale, raised in Los Angeles on “Top Ramen and fear,” could make hair-raising terror this funny.

From Los Angeles Times

At the opposite end of the spectrum that runs from cozy to hair-raising were two immersive fiction features about military disasters that hit devastatingly.

From The Wall Street Journal