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hair-raising

ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely alarming

How To Use hair-raising In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • If any of these hair-raising prospects had come to pass, there would be a cause for genuine alarm. The Sun
  • Even so, when applied to yesterday's polls the program yields fascinating - not to say hair-raising - results.
  • 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.
  • 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. Suffering and Enlightenment « Tales from the Reading Room
  • 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
  • Even within such parameters I have had plenty of adventures of my own abroad, some more hair-raising than others.
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