You were just trying to scare people back into reality.

He recovered in an emergency room, but the incident scared him into treatment.

But he might make a face and scare a wall into collapsing.

"You could have scared the kid into a permanent psychotic state!"

Might trying to scare people into action actually be causing them to consume more?

Dan has been known to just scare fish into the boat.

"So you speak of violence and hope that it will scare the city into action."

"The problem is you can't scare them into your office anymore by saying you've got a big tax you're going to pay," he said.

"I was trying to scare some sense into you," he said.

After failing to buy my lifetime services, he had tried to scare me into it.