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List of antonyms from "haft" to antonyms from "hairless"


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Definition of the day : « hair-raising »

  • adj causing excitement
Example sentences :
  • The way that Spot walked into those dogs and gave them what-for was hair-raising.
  • Extract from : « Lost Face » by Jack London
  • No one knew where he could have possibly heard the hair-raising phrase.
  • Extract from : « In the Mist of the Mountains » by Ethel Turner
  • Piercing, hair-raising, unnatural as they were, Mr. Budlong recognized them.
  • Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
  • It was a hair-raising coast, but we made the brink without a spill.
  • Extract from : « Down the Yellowstone » by Lewis R. Freeman
  • One fellow, I forget his name, has a most hair-raising theory.
  • Extract from : « The Tower of Oblivion » by Oliver Onions
  • It was a hair-raising proposition, but perhaps—just perhaps—not quite so suicidal as it looked.
  • Extract from : « The Wreckers » by Francis Lynde
  • The yells which accompanied it were hair-raising as the shrieks from a band of maniacs.
  • Extract from : « Ben Blair » by Will Lillibridge
  • The curates of the town spoke of him in terms of hair-raising horror.
  • Extract from : « The Torrent » by Vicente Blasco Ibaez
  • The air-ship zigzagged erratically on its course, and the long bag ducked upward and downward in a most hair-raising manner.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt's Air Ship » by Stanley R. Matthews
  • There had been a hair-raising ghost story that had sent a dozen home before the respectable time of departure.
  • Extract from : « My Lady of the Chimney Corner » by Alexander Irvine