How To Use hair-raising In A Sentence
- But his effort to become a baldie was hair-raising - and he was seen with nicks all over his skull. The Sun
- A zinger is the hair-raising, nerve jangling, eye crossing, insane jolt of electric zappage that can happen to the tender nerve of a tooth when using any kind of tooth whitening process. Wilberteets Diary Entry
- They had vast tracts of possession, got themselves into some highly promising field positions but were undone at the tackle zone with hair-raising regularity.
- NOW that's what you call a hair-raising experience. The Sun
- It is absolutely hair-raising how Brahms shakes his fist at the heavens and this Olympian, this imperious music would rise over this timpani which is thundering in the background," says Fleisher. Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso
- Four asylum-seekers spent 18 hair-raising hours clinging to the underneath of a coach in an attempt to get into the UK.
- If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm. The Sun
- Even a thought of this kind might be hair-raising.
- Incidentally, you might recognise that rhetorical shimmy as a variation of syllepsis: a fairly easy word to avoid, it must be admitted, but as hair-raising for me to pronounce as Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- The dramatic rescue reconstructions include a hair-raising tale of a man hanging upside down from a plane. The Sun