How To Use Terrorize In A Sentence

Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
He then continued to terrorise families in the restaurant as amused staff watched. The Sun
Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target.
Sideshow Bob terrorizes Bart after he is paroled from prison.

They can be real nice to you when you are the passenger, but when you are a fellow motorist, they will terrorize you.
Why not just give him his own show, like Russell Hantz's Texas, and show him swindling women and children out of their welfare checks, and then giggling over what "patsies" they were, before going home to terrorize his wife and daughters? Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Rerun Island:
They've played before and are a perfect match when it comes to energy levels and desire to terrorize the other until both have passed out from mental exhaustion.
THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
A child who had been terrorized and quite possibly emotionally and sexually abused by an adult kidnaper for four years. O'REILLY ABUSES THE ABUSED: Then Lies That He's Done So
Certainly, New York and Washington, D.C. were "terrorized" in these cases, but is this "terrorism" as we mean it now? Norman Goldman: Who's a Terrorist?
Most inept alien The "blob" - a giant amoeba which, in the 1953 movie, terrorises the small community of Downington PA. The Guardian World News
The last festival I went to was terrorised by drunken yobbos and violent episodes.
In many countries people are victimised, terrorised, disappeared or tortured, for publicly, or even privately, expressing dissent.
Magistrates issued the ASBO which bans him from parts of Penhill estate and includes a curfew after hearing Liam led a gang of louts who terrorised residents.
For something like 15 years that name terrorized much of the world. The N-word a "Mantle of Honor"?
As the only one of the white lady volunteers who spoke the language of the Chinese inmates, Pearl heard atrocious accounts of physical and mental abuse, violence, torture, starvation, and rape inflicted on girls thrown out or sold by their families into forced labor, working in brothels or as domestic slaves terrorized by the mistress of the household and passed from hand to hand by the master, his sons, and his menservants. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Michael's family called for his killers to be given long jail sentences as a deterrent to 'the feral youths who terrorise our society'.
The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content
The thought never crossed our minds that someone could walk into our house at night to terrorize us.
How had this monster been allowed to terrorise the poor girl unchallenged?
Yes, Stalin terrorized his country for many years. Intelligent Design?
These are military sweeps of areas known to be hostile to the Karzai government to kill or round up suspected opponents and terrorise the population.
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
The Ku Klux Klan, founded in the United States in 1866, wore white hoods and cloaks and carried burning crosses to terrorise people as part of their white supremacy policy.
Messages don't even need to come from known terrorists in order to terrorise these days.
The mysterious noise-rock quartet make jagged, fearsome monoliths of fuzz and distortion that terrorize with ear-bleeding volume and, once in a very rare while, flirt with hummability.
Even worse, it wasn't unheard of for foreign expatriates or discharged soldiers to form bands of brigands that terrorized lonely travelers.
Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
It would have been a mockery of the British way of life to stand by and let a man like him terrorise me on my own doorstep.
A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
A group of so-called teenagers terrorises people who are minding their own business or out for a walk there.
The public display of the tortured body terrorizes through the depths of horror implied in its calibration of pain witnessed by a culturally informed public.
Whatever the cause, I discovered that I was terrorised and was behaving in ways that were both irrational and abhorrent.
Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize y'alls neighborhood.
He still looks some way short of the player who terrorised defences last season. The Sun
People of God, people of courage do not allow themselves to be "terrorized" by government perverts, or any of the other myriad enemies of freedom. B. Bhutto, FDR, Reclaiming Illicit, 9,000% Profits, Amid Silence From Candidates
Both have the ability to terrorise opponents but have to do it regularly. The Sun
A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
The offence of attempted murder is aggravated by the fact that it was long-planned, that it had multiple intended victims and was intended to terrorise the population of this country. U.K. Muslim Convert Jailed for Suicide-Bomb Attempt
For this reason many of them have to be locked up in policed “schools” where they terrorise the real sixth formers. Archive 2007-12-09
The gates of hell will crack open and demons will rise from the abyss to terrorize mortal men.
He was an urbane intellectual in a country terrorized by a primitive tribal thug and his loyal clansmen.
A criminal gang terrorized the neighbourhood.
He currently terrorises politicians and their ilk on "Newsnight
He looked a shadow of the prolific goalscorer who terrorised defences last season. Times, Sunday Times
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
The Clantons will never again terrorize this town. The Posse | PopPolitics.com
Between the 1740s and the 1820s, Romney Marsh was openly terrorized by armed gangs of smugglers.
In spite of the fears of some, the criticism of others, we have to recognize that celebrating independence in Goma, yesterday a terrorized and besieged city that felt forgotten by Kinshasa, is a strong symbol. Global Voices in English » DRC: Goma’s Makeover for Independence Day
Singhvi, who sent Moro a legal notice six months ago, hit back at the author who has accused the Congress of trying to "terrorise" Indian firms against publishing his book. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
He looked a shadow of the prolific goalscorer who terrorised defences last season. Times, Sunday Times
Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
These actions, which have killed numerous Israeli civilians, terrorized the people of Israel and destroyed many cities, played a central role in provoking the current crisis, and do nothing but harm the cause of Palestinian and Lebanese independence and democracy. Israel-Lebanon Conflict
While his father ran a conservative magazine and his mother's family the local newspaper, he and his siblings terrorised the neighbourhood, running amok because their parents did not believe in discipline.
Bands of gunmen have hijacked food shipments and terrorized relief workers.
He looked a shadow of the prolific goalscorer who terrorised defences last season. Times, Sunday Times
You will say fantastic, another bloke we can terrorise. Times, Sunday Times
He still looks some way short of the player who terrorised defences last season. The Sun
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
But our job is to remain steadfast in the face of terror, to refuse to be terrorized. Boing Boing: August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 Archives
So, not much to behold of the left-footed devilry that terrorised defences around the globe and won him the coveted African footballer's award in 1988, but perhaps a different kind of magic to see.
‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’
Spanish author Javier Moro, who had accused the Congress of trying to '' terrorise '' book on Sonia Gandhi, the party on Friday dubbed him as ''a group was left out in the fight against ... WN.com - Articles related to FBI Uses Terror-Probe Tactics on Fraud
Guilbert Ralston, one of the seven sons of a rich merchant prince who as youths terrorized the countryside (we are not told where it is) disappears "while still in his nonage. “Living hand to mouth. . .”
We will win the War on Terror by being smarter and more resilient and not be "terrorized" and paralyzed. Poll: Less Than One In Four Want To Stay In Iraq To Achieve Democracy
B-movie insanity in which the Californian coast is terrorised by two prehistoric sea creatures. Times, Sunday Times
An elderly family, a pregnant woman and children were terrorised when the gang kicked in the front door, smashed windows and shouted racial abuse at them.
We naked apes, in the millennia since consciousness evolved into thought, have forged in our fear and defenselessness great clumsy creatures called nations, which have a momentum seemingly beyond human ability to control, and which are both modeled after and behave like the predators who terrorized us for most of our time here on this planet, according to Ehrenreich. Robert Koehler: The Heart of the Future
Oppenheim was responsible for trying to terrorize Kevin Reid and Ian Hawthorn in the UK, even though the MPAA is a purely US entity. Attention copyright infriners!
Some human right organisations tried to defy the whip on September 21, but they were terrorised by the strong-arm tactics of the upper castes.
They are organized by such far right organizations as Freedomworks, with their scare tactic talking points and the instruction to "terrorize" Blue Dogs over the break. Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
He was known as a prankster; on a tour of the Sistine Chapel in Rome he dressed up as the devil and terrorized penitents with a horsewhip.
The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals. WHITE NOISE INSANITY
He is a respectable businessman now but when we were young we terrorised Glasgow's nightclubs, drinking, carousing and doing a lot else I can't mention.
In the 71-page tract, published in English translation on the internet, he repeatedly claims that fighting jihad, holy war, is obligatory for all Muslims and urges them to 'terrorise' non-believers. Why is this man not prosecuted here?
Being unlovely has been a deliberate strategy employed by all sides during the conflict, a way to terrorise and shock opponents and onlookers alike. There is the obviously appalling aspect of the troubles that left over 3000 people dead.
And no reasonable person, let alone a wordsmith like Limbaugh, thinks the word terrorize means the same thing as terrorist. 12/06/2005
The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
Anything to terrorise the civilian population.
After 25 years of silence, a notorious serial killer resurfaces to terrorize a whole new generation.
Sure, workplace ribaldry or unwanted sexual advances directed at women may sometimes be motivated by a desire to put women ‘in their place’ - to humiliate them, terrorize them, even force them to quit.
Our government does not 'terrorise' its citizens, and neither can opponents of the government. British Blogs
In The Apprentice, Warren returns, to once again terrorize Detective Jane Rizzoli. Essay by Tess Gerritsen, author of The Apprentice and The Surgeon
Sounds a lot like "terrorize" with Cheney's head right smack in the middle. Senate Guru: Cheney Speech: When Subliminal Messaging is Accurate
He was charged with arson and threats to terrorise and held on $1 million bail. Times, Sunday Times
Prosecutors would have to prove that a suspect knew the noose to be a threat and used it to terrorize, which is defined as prompting people to fear for their personal safety. Home
And what I intend to ask of her when she comes back is justice against those who terrorize and betray us. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The objective was to create a situation of extreme violence and polarise people in such a way that those who protested would be terrorised or dubbed anti-national, thus legitimising this unpardonable crime.
During the six and a half years of marriage, I was repeatedly beaten, terrorized, tortured and sexually molested.
Extremists seek to terrorize innocent men, women and children, whoever they are and wherever they may live.
Frankly, if he'll keep doing it shirtless, he can come over and "terrorize" me all night. Big Brother 11 : The Wizard of Wacko Place.
Vickery has done little to suggest he is the same man who once terrorised the fields of world rugby under the alias of Raging Bull.
Centaur tribes terrorize the Barrens of Kalimdor and ransack the indigenous peoples' villages and cities.
The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
We are the ones that are terrorized, which is also why those that bring in the loose quantities that end up in our communities and boil down to crack ought to also be given a lot of time, so they can't begin the process in the first place. CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2000
Since this is my first time posting on Boing Boing, I wanted to explain that I didn't put the quotes around "terrorize" to be snarky; I'm just not sure that it fit my (admittedly personal) view that terrorism is larger-scale than what we experienced. How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing
Bakri accused the Algerian government of sending ex-convicts to Sudan to "terrorise Daily News-Record
Much like the roar of a Bengal Tiger, those who would threaten to continue to do damage to one's field are held at bay as one stands their ground and terrorizes the forces of the dark into retracting.
The story concerns a criminal gang called The Vampires, mysterious and resourceful, that terrorizes France with a succession of swindles, robberies, and murders.
In retrospect the n-word terrorized the hearts and minds of a race of people for more than 250 years. The N-word a "Mantle of Honor"?
I'm just finishing up a study about how one group of people used overwhelming displays of violence to overawe and terrorize another group into docility and obedience.
B-movie insanity in which the Californian coast is terrorised by two prehistoric sea creatures. Times, Sunday Times
He terrorised batsmen, but he never sledged them.
We have seen cutlines and statements by the administration and others talking about London terrorized, terror in London.
Here, landlords organized armed gangs, built stockades and forts, and fought their neighbours for land and irrigation water, terrorized their tenants, and usurped judicial rights.
Richard Sternberg -- Expelled claims that Sternberg was 'terrorized' and that 'his life was nearly ruined' when, in 2004, as editor of Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, he published a pro-intelligent design article by Stephen C. Meyer. Archive 2008-04-01
According to some local people, armed gangs from tribal areas terrorise the city. Times, Sunday Times
The story: New England shore community is terrorized by shark attacks; local cop, ichthyologist and salty shark expert determine to kill the attacker.
They will ostracise and terrorise a vulnerable Hispanic minority with few legal rights, encouraging them to leave or disappear further into the shadows. Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in America's deep south
He really enjoys himself when he can mentally terrorize his audience, shocking them to a catharsis.
The thugs raided the village and began firing their guns to terrorise the farmers.
Spanish author Javier Moro, who had accused the Congress of trying to "terrorise" today dubbed him as "a perpetrator, ... photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan WN.com - Articles related to FBI Uses Terror-Probe Tactics on Fraud
He has no probs getting around at night thwacking the bad guys who terrorise his neighbourhood.
I figure that if people can wear a T-shirt that portrays a ruthless butcher that terrorized my country of birth as a hero, then I can wear a shirt proclaiming my views.
Hundreds and hundreds of innocent human beings have been murdered in these drone attacks; many thousands more have been driven from their homes, and terrorized into lives of mental anguish, their psyches lamed by trauma, upheaval and the ever-present dread of death raining down on them from the skies. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 8, 2010
Gambling kingpins and vice lords bought votes, counted votes of long since dead voters and terrorized honest citizens so that every political leader and law enforcement officer in the county owed their jobs to the crooks.
He was booked on suspicion of making threats with intent to terrorize and on suspicion of interfering with a person's civil rights.
A criminal gang terrorized the neighbourhood.
A witness to the robberies said the victims were terrorised by their attackers and were visibly shaking with fear.
The tiny port is dominated by a grim stronghold castle, previously home to the pirates who terrorised the coast for centuries.
If you have no money and you don `t want to terrorize you can trade off possessions of value for hits. ICED
I spent a year down in Collins back in the early 1990s and was terrorized by one of those giant coachwhip snakes.
Forces on both sides frequently terrorized unarmed civilians suspected of sympathizing with the enemy.
Over the past few weeks clergymen and parochial staff have been terrorised by youngsters and church buildings plundered by thieves.
If you have no money and you don `t want to terrorize you can trade off possessions of value for hits. ICED
How does one honor people who terrorize innocents?
This kinsman of Count Fisiolo's, this other Lord Prestimion, who ' s allowed to go free to terrorize the river! LORD PRESTIMION
They were left to be hunted and terrorized by a group of sociopathic slayers.
Any American who tries to look at U.S. leaders from the perspective of a Lao refugee, an innocent Iraqi prisoner, a Haitian slum-dweller or a Helmand housewife terrorized at the prospect of the next U.S. offensive, can only shudder at such questions. Fred Branfman: Should Christopher Hitchens Apologize to Iraqis (And U.S. Peace Marchers?)
As for external security, the military continued to molder without significant reform, its pilots unable to fly more than a few dozen hours a year because of fuel shortages, its sailors at sea only one or two days a month, its conscripts terrorized by horrific hazing. The Return
Now that they terrorise, murder, and, frankly, slaughter innocent children, we are at the most depraved end of the spectrum of all.
She remembered how even then he was always alone, secluding himself from the rest of the posse that terrorized the school because of their wealth and position.
The youth is sent to a farm to learn jackarooing, for which he has no aptitude, sleeping in the shed with rats and terrorised by a part-mad farmer's wife.
I would prefer to see the massive amounts of money used by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society every year to "terrorise" Japanese whaling vessels put to less polarising methods. ZGeek
Nay, it would show that Jesus has not saved the world, if we can go on and speak of him as an actual existence, born of a virgin and risen from the dead, and in his name persecute one another -- oppose the advance of science, deny freedom of thought, terrorize children and women with pictures of hell-fire and seek to establish a spiritual monopoly in the world, when the evidence in hand seems clearly to indicate that such a person never existed. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?
So it ` s a defense mechanism, what he ` s doing, and he ` s telling the press that the children are deathly terrorized, and that word "deathly" says a lot. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
And what I intend to ask of her when she comes back is justice against those who terrorize and betray us. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
A learner's permit is a legal document that allows a teenager to terrorize a parent without fear of prosecution.
The teds are a dandified gang of toughs who terrorize the town, or at least like to think they do. Broken Music, A Memoir
For any American media to suggest that the US should allow a city to be terrorized is simply representative of the worst sort of terrorism themselves. Think Progress » Pelosi Responds: O’Reilly Terrorism Statement “Deadly Serious”
The two fine goals against Denmark were a proper reward, but he terrorised the heavy-footed German defence too.
Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
During a night of so-called wilding, packs of teens terrorized their way through the sanctified Manhattan park like latter-day droogs.
I wasn't contented to stay at that moment, knowing whatever she spoke of, would terrorize me with the vanity.
Victims of stalking have first-hand knowledge of various techniques that can be used to terrorise or control others.
A gang of marauding youngsters terrorised parish councillors by flinging a brick at the window of their meeting room and trying to force their way in through a fire door.
The horrors they commit are done by a few and are done for a political reason: to terrorize their enemies.
He haunted her mind and terrorized her dreams, weakening her and draining her of her strength.
They terrorized him into compliance.
Were all those flamboyant teams he produced built on a capacity to terrorise? Times, Sunday Times
An armed robber who terrorised staff at his local pharmacy at gunpoint to get prescribed drugs, has been jailed for six years.
It's classic terrorism where you attack the general population to terrorize the people to achieve a political aim.
A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
There is nothing to deter any of these low-life creatures who abduct, abuse and murder children, attack and rape the elderly, terrorise and rob shopkeepers or commit any one of the many horrific crimes one hears about these days.
But then they had the soft part of the war, where they went in and tried to take away what they considered to be Saddam Hussein's weapons, to go after the so-called scud (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in western Iraq so that they couldn't terrorize the Israelis and bring other nations into this war. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
You'll come in and say 'fantastic, we've got another bloke we can terrorise'. The Sun
May 9, 2010 at 3:48 am ai alwais tells zeekie “nao yoo no hao rumple felt”, cos when he wuz yunger, he terrorized mai angel kitteh rumpelteazer something awful! ai no call em bullees, just boystrus! Why you want candy? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
In the 71-page tract, published in English translation on the internet, he repeatedly claims that fighting jihad, holy war, is obligatory for all Muslims and urges them to 'terrorise' non-believers The Jawa Report
He was brainwashed and terrorized and threatened, but he was gotten back alive.
If you look around these streets and you think about the kids that have died, the people that have been on drugs, the old folks that have been terrorized, that is not what those people died for. President To St Louis Residents
Rapid development of bushranging (lawlessness of escaped convicts and other bandits, who terrorized the more remote areas). 1813
They are uninterested in whether these guerrillas terrorized the local population.
He used to terrorize me, but as I grew older, he became funny to me.
He was a muscleman and bully and often he used to terrorize the people.
I had the whole outfit as a child - guns, hat and chaps, in which I'd terrorise my sister in the name of justice and the American way.
This was Thyrza Primp, wife, helpmeet, taskmaster and terrorizer of poor dead Walter. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
This kinsman of Count Fisiolo's, this other Lord Prestimion, who ' s allowed to go free to terrorize the river! LORD PRESTIMION
Whether the display is at 2pm or 2am is immaterial to animals, most of whom are terrorised by the sudden and loud bangs.
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody (through denying the victim authority over his/her own physical self), extract confessions (whether true or false) and ultimately permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'. Shirin Sadeghi: The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters
The story: New England shore community is terrorized by shark attacks; local cop, ichthyologist and salty shark expert determine to kill the attacker.
Armed police with a back-up helicopter hovering overhead sealed off part of a village as a man terrorised his ex-partner at gunpoint.
He might be an evil, undead fiend whose rapacious bloodlust terrorised Europe for centuries.
It's the second time that the mail has been used to deliver -- to deliver agents that can be called bioterrorism, in the sense that we are subjected to a hazardous substance that has an intent to terrorize. CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004

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