(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every transfer back to MLS from Europe is written about with the "eurosnob" as the argument's scarecrow.
(2) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(3) Among women, a majority favoured the Scarecrow (37 per cent as opposed to 36 per cent for the Tin Man).
(4) Across the board, 46 per cent of voters said they would prefer to be governed by the Tin Man, compared with 27 per cent who chose the Scarecrow.
(5) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
(6) When it came to keeping hungry lions at bay, an old-fashioned scarecrow just wasn't up to the job.
(7) I grew up not just gay but tall, speccy and scarecrow-skinny, the child of divorced parents from opposing sides of a sectarian divide.
(8) The program SCARECROW has been developed to help the molecular modeler to analyze and display the very big and complex data files produced by molecular dynamics programs.
(9) The molecular graphics program SCARECROW is written to support the display, animation, and extensive analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
(10) Ed Miliband is the Scarecrow, who has persuaded people his heart is in the right place while so far failing to prove that Labour could govern with no money.
(11) The Scarecrow from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" is but one example.
(12) We invited people to imagine they lived in the Land of Oz, and the candidates for power were "the tin man, who's all brains and no heart, and the scarecrow, who's all heart and no brains.
(13) His biographer wrote: "He offered as his personal motto the legend hung around the neck of a ragged scarecrow of a man in a painting by Goya : A ú n aprendo .
(14) Late-night TV roundup: Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow' Read more But his favorite news organization appears to be the far-right site Breitbart, which Oliver said contained “the kind of headlines you see your old high school friend share on Facebook and think, ‘Oh that’s a shame, I guess Greg sucks now’”.
(15) Turere said he tried various ideas for a more peaceful solution, such as a kerosene lamp and a scarecrow.
(16) They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back, but the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it's always here.
(17) Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway last night, referring to her as a “truth scarecrow”.
(18) When it comes to any vision for a new economy, they are the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion – no brain, no heart and no courage."
(19) Having figured in the two previous Batman movies and Inception, it's hardly a stretch to imagine the Scarecrow returning.
(20) More immediately, the task facing both parties is to convince voters that they are neither tin man nor scarecrow.
Terrifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Terrify
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
(2) The woman who had lost her husband and son had another son, 20 years old, and she was terrified.
(3) "I find that terrifying frankly; safety comes from being in a team.
(4) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(5) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(6) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
(7) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(8) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(9) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(10) Chained and terrified, she made her choice and lied.
(11) I lived through terrifying moments during the steepest of my professional learning curves and was perpetually sleep-deprived.
(12) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
(13) This is legitimately terrifying.” Several commentators compared Comey’s sudden sacking with the 1973 “Saturday night massacre” when President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to look into the Watergate affair.
(14) I’d have hated to hear that Russell had been dragged, terrified, to his death.
(15) A Peta statement added: "We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.
(16) So, to summarise, Shorten and his speechwriting team looked out into the mildly terrifying and endlessly fracturing political landscape of January 2017 and concluded that politics had to be personal.
(17) Meanwhile the Dublin government, terrified of the impact that a UK withdrawal could have on its own economy, has warned darkly of immigration and custom posts returning.
(18) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
(19) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
(20) It wasn't that the drinking was great, but I was so terrified of not drinking.