How To Use Hair-raising In A Sentence
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But his effort to become a baldie was hair-raising - and he was seen with nicks all over his skull.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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NOW that's what you call a hair-raising experience.
The Sun
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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
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Four asylum-seekers spent 18 hair-raising hours clinging to the underneath of a coach in an attempt to get into the UK.
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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Even a thought of this kind might be hair-raising.
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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
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The dramatic rescue reconstructions include a hair-raising tale of a man hanging upside down from a plane.
The Sun
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Combined with the near-sleepwalking tendencies of the cast, this rendering offered few hair-raising moments on the vocal Richter scale.
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A hair-raising view out the window is of the Dadu River below.
Saving the Secret Towers
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Then he has the other cars brought closer together and repeats the hair-raising movement into such a confined space that one of them has to be moved to let him out again.
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Here, he tells of his hair-raising experiences.
The Sun
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One hair-raising descent nearly left me with a permanent falsetto voice.
The Sun
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The triumphant peroration at the end is almost hair-raising in its eminent sense of nationalism.
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The hair-raising charity event may yet turn out to be the least perilous experience of the 43-year-old's recent career.
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Yet some are notching up hair-raising experiences that make them stand out from the crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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He describes himself as a "footballing defender" ie watch out for hair-raising balls across the back-line.
League One 2011-12: guide to the new season
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Fifteen minutes later, after hair-raising swerving and lane-changing, we ended up at a gem-dealer.
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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A number of large financial advisers have bought the membership list and are bombarding policyholders with some fairly hair-raising literature.
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Twenty-four miles of bridge, minus the last hair-raising few, stretched out low and mostly flat over the calm waters of the lake.
Darkness Becomes Her
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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Her truck is a very large pickup which she drives at hair-raising speeds.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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From vicious viruses to hair-raising hacks to killer robots, CNet's gadget blog rounds up some truly frightening tech events.
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His effort with a toupee was equally unsuccessful when a ride at the local amusement park caused his wig to come undone - hair-raising experience indeed!
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Alas, the cry of the limpkin, a hair-raising screech.
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The short second act ends with the vow of martyrdom, setting the stage for one of the most hair-raising operatic finales.
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They can be pretty hair-raising, these happy endings.
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The howling of the sirens, which shriek to announce the beginning and end of each air raid alarm, merge into a single, hair-raising noise.
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Its steep, boulder-strewn slopes make for plenty of hair-raising scrambling and a necessary return to the Grog and Gruel for more home brew.
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Combined with the near-sleepwalking tendencies of the cast, this rendering offered few hair-raising moments on the vocal Richter scale.
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One hair-raising descent nearly left me with a permanent falsetto voice.
The Sun
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Many will quietly admit they prefer a hair-raising flirt with relegation to mid-table mediocrity.
The Sun
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Ozone attacks a carbon-carbon double bond, initially making an ozonide, a hair-raising five-membered ring that has three oxygens in a row.
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Dogs howled or let out hair-raising deep-guttural sounds.
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The rise of the Nazis, and the involvement of some famous Nazis makes this story all the more hair-raising.
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She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
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His command of six strings incorporates a hair-raising degree of proficiency and versatility from tingling jangles to hypnotic jigs and ragged fragments of blues.
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Viewers could not help screaming and offering instant forgiveness because the hair-raising act had been so nearly perfect.
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This can often be the most hair-raising time for any entrepreneur.
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For decades, the military has been trying to figure out ways to keep soldiers awake and alert in the field - for days at a time. Back in the 60s, that meant some pretty hair-raising experiments with everything from bennies to LSD.
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He was wounded twice in different gunfights, run over by a smuggler, fought in World War I and lived a hair-raising life on the Prohibition-era Mexican border.
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Getting a real good hair-raising scare will produce an increase in an individual's terror.
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By their very nature, novice chases are invariably hair-raising affairs.
Great Sporting Failures
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A hair-raising screech from the sound of metal scraping metal sent shivers through me.
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The dramatic rescue reconstructions include a hair-raising tale of a man hanging upside down from a plane.
The Sun
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The idea is to test ourselves against the clock during a hair-raising descent.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are some great slapstick moments, including one particularly famous hair-raising scene.
The Sun
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Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, to 5 FebRobert ClarkYou could say Jennifer West makes action movies: her 16mm films are full of thrills, spills and hair-raising feats.
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The 15-minute drive to training was a hair-raising experience along dirt roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even within such parameters I have had plenty of adventures of my own abroad, some more hair-raising than others.
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Wood was sent off after joining in a fight that had started when Agulla reacted to Ashton's hair-raising stunt.
Northampton and Leicester punch drunk as the bad blood remains
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There are some really funny Buddhist stories like the one about the zen master being scared shitless being driven in a car along hair-raising roads … but being present with his scared shitlessness.
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An inner court is revealed under a strange portico formed by projecting the caretaker's flat over the entrance route in a hair-raising cantilever which stops just short of the neighbouring building.
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Even so, when applied to yesterday's polls the program yields fascinating - not to say hair-raising - results.
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and layabout!
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The ride, which has been described as a ‘hair-raising cross between a rollercoaster and a waltzer,’ was only opened in May by girl band The Honeyz.
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In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
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Their caustic relationship alternates between comic turns and hair-raising go-for-blood verbal combat.
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To that end, he embarked upon wholesale change: 14 players in and 14 out during that hair-raising first season.
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Their caustic relationship alternates between comic turns and hair-raising go-for-blood verbal combat.
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One popular excursion is called Suicide Gorge for a series of hair-raising jumps and slides from rocks dozens of feet above the water.
Between a Rock and a Waterfall
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The most hair-raising, perhaps, is a purge of supposed felons from the voter rolls that denied political rights to thousands of innocent citizens, most of whom were African-American.
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A crackdown on criminal syndicates in the past few years has made it safer than it was, though anyone you meet will rattle off a few hair-raising tales of carjackings and robberies.
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It's sweeping, hyperromantic, and superficial -- don't expect it to make any sense -- but it's also hair-raisingly beautiful.
Chicago Reader
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If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm.
The Sun
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Ay, ay, sir!" came the response, faintly heard above the howl of the wind, the thunder of the surf on the rocks to leeward, the heavy "slosh" of a sea in over the bows, and the hair-raising slatting of the canvas overhead.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained schemes, hair-raising moments, and incredibly close shaves.
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Whether it is heavier birth weights, amplified testosterone levels or simple, hair-raising high jinks , boys seem to take an extra toll on the women who gave birth to them.
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It's not as hair-raising as I thought it might be - mostly uniforms in display cases and a cannon in the middle of the room.
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His target audience is "people getting their first full-time job and the big, hair-raising, annoying responsibilities.
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The most spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, pimple-squeezing dreams about standing naked at a swap-meet, people pointing and laughing, me in the middle of it all slapping my ass cheeks with both hands and a sense of sheer terror jamming my ability to focus, not because I had forgotten to wear clothes, but because my wallet was in the pants I wasn't wearing.
Yard Sailing
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Bear has experienced some hair-raising animal encounters while filming but says the real hero is his cameraman.
The Sun
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He emphasised that the real test for the drivers during the race will be a crossover where the carts will be switching tracks at a hair-raising speed.
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This is exactly the kind of hair-raising scenario I imagined when my daughter went travelling – although she assured me she wore full leathers, a crash helmet and never went above 25mph.
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Chicago Bells) - occurred in the musicians 'attention to ensemble playing as running melodies underscored the hair-raising "vivace" movement.
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A family is setting off on what many would consider a hair-raising adventure by upping roots and moving to the other side of the globe.
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She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
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Ms. Gill's account of Victoria's family, and Albert's too -- they were first cousins, she belonging to the House of Hanover and he to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha -- makes for hair-raising reading.
Victoria and Albert, Allies in Love