7 sentences with “terrified”

He was terrified at the thought of his family's fate.

-The gangsters are going to break in! -said a terrified Vietnamese man.

The Vietnamese must be terrified, Astrid thought as she hurried to her car and drove through the dark streets to the shelter, some two and a half kilometers away.

Young Spartan men in training were sent out to assassinate any group they found. All this was to ensure that the colonists were too terrified and discouraged to resist Spartan domination.

The inhabitants of the island, terrified, thought that the end of the world had come, and fled to the regions that had not been affected by the eruption, as well as to neighboring islands.

The Greek polis were, for the most part, terrified into submission, with only 6% of Greek cities joining the defensive coalition created by Athens and Sparta (incidentally, within that 6% were some of the most powerful poles in Greece).

Today the world is terrified by a retrovirus discovered in the 1980s, which may have jumped to humans from some animal species (it is distantly related to one that affects African green monkeys); it is the cause of the disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.