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Significados de hair-raising en inglés

Extremely alarming.

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Examples for "nightmarish"
Examples for "nightmarish"
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No scientist working with chimeras apparently wishes to create such nightmarish animals.
Wired
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The colorful crowd she had earlier admired was now a nightmarish sea.
Secrets of a Perfect Night
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Flynn's first start in his second go-around with Green Bay was nightmarish.
Reuters
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Suddenly the Count felt the nightmarish pressure removed from the sensitive spot.
A Set of Six
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As quickly as the nightmarish anguish struck, it stopped, leaving her body.
The devil's touch
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How had she come by that phrase-thebloodcurdling one of the Sibyl?
Helen of troy
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He made a discreet and bloodcurdling gesture to me with the other.
Romance
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Next day, the poet D'Annunzio gave a well-trailed, bloodcurdling speech in Genoa.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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A Hunter gave a bloodcurdling roar as it charged into the fray.
The Flood
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Modern scholars recognize that such bloodcurdling accounts of Viking raids are vastly exaggerated.
Eaters of the Dead
Uso de hair-raising en inglés
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The bus trip to Aspen takes 6 hours over hair-raising mountain roads.
The new yorker
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As Halloween creeps upon us, who were the great Hollywood hair-raising heroines?
The Irish Times
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The hair-raising seven-minute sequence has got engineers and scientists at JPL nervous.
Wired
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But the sprint checkpoint at Saint-Girons gives way to a hair-raising finish.
The South African
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The talking heads approach gets a bit relentless, but it's hair-raising stuff.
The Guardian
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We are accustomed to hair-raising statistics coming out of the Health Service Executive.
The Irish Times
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The curates of the town spoke of him in terms of hair-raising horror.
The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
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The descent is hair-raising and unsafe: no profanity can do justice to it.
The Mountains
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A happy family, like a contented nation, is unlikely to have hair-raising adventures.
The Irish Times
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And I saw it only once and then under hair-raising circumstances.
In Secret
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He talked me through his hair-raising exploits with the various investigative USAF bodies.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
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They had reached the narrow opening when a hair-raising scream rose behind them.
When darkness comes
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But none is quite as hair-raising as a speed-limit-free jaunt down the autobahn.
The Irish Times
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Memories of the house were immersed in ghostly tales and creepy, hair-raising experiences.
Radio NZ
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The stories one may read of the Hôtel-Dieu, at Paris, are fairly hair-raising.
The Age of the Reformation
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The rider screeched again, the sound weirdly familiar and completely hair-raising.
Cold Days
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Hair-raising a través del tiempo