Similar words: raising, raisin, rocking chair, rising, cruising, devising, uprising, bruising. Meaning: adj. extremely alarming.
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1. She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
2. This can often be the most hair-raising time for any entrepreneur.
3. As usual, there was no shortage of hair-raising stunts in the series.
4. Andreas' driving had been hair-raising enough, but this was a completely new experience.
5. We ended up making a hair-raising 200 kilometre night drive to the border.
6. After many hair-raising adventures, most not only survive but emerge wiser and stronger as a result of their harrowing ordeal.
7. Riding to work with Harry is usually a hair-raising experience.
8. After various hair-raising adventures in Afghanistan, Newcombe settled in Northern India.
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9. Evans had relayed some hair-raising stories about the exploitation of her rich patients.
10. That is really a hair-raising experience.
11. These hair-raising Halloween treats are sure to spook you!
12. But a hair-raising experience in the Cardamom Mountains is a more extreme option for those who want to see Cambodia under their own steam.
13. This is exactly the kind of hair-raising scenario I imagined when my daughter went travelling – although she assured me she wore full leathers, a crash helmet and never went above 25mph.
14. My daughter and her boyfriend had a hair-raising time hiking in the mountains -- they met a black bear with her cub.
15. After a three-day siege, the hair-raising showdown on Nov. 29 led to the death of the remaining militants, albeit at significant human cost.
16. He made unauthorized phone calls to Robert Sproul to read hair-raising pas-sages about bayonet fighting.
17. The others, however, told their anecdotes with no moral comment whatsoever, even though they had to recount some hair-raising events.
18. Jenny had lots of adventures, travelling all over the world and always coming home with hair-raising stories.
19. We went together to Lantau, and travelled on a really hair-raising bus journey to a Buddhist monastery in the mountains.
20. Inland travel and preaching became easier at once, though he had hair-raising adventures and was not naturally brave.
21. Combined with the near-sleepwalking tendencies of the cast, this rendering offered few hair-raising moments on the vocal Richter scale.
22. Even so, when applied to yesterday's polls the program yields fascinating - not to say hair-raising - results.
23. Also, it is necessary to avoid giving the impression that the respondent's answers are in any way exceptional nomatterhow hair-raising.
24. We all love to frighten ourselves by going on hair-raising rides at funfairs.
25. There displayed different tortures in all ages, From notorious "rack" to "break one's braincase". It is hair-raising to see the exhibits.
26. His target audience is "people getting their first full-time job and the big, hair-raising, annoying responsibilities."
27. Her truck is a very large pickup which she drives at hair-raising speeds.
28. As the marriage dissolved, the Bucks endured several exiles, including a hair-raising one in 1927 when Nationalist soldiers drove them as refugees to Japan.
29. Heading out into the estuary of the Derwent River can be hair-raising when the Southern Ocean is choppy, but it's bearable on a large, luxury, high-speed catamaran.
30. After drifting lower at a sleepy pace for most of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average abruptly lurched into a hair-raising sky dive in the final hour of trading.
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