He was trying to scare me, so I killed him.

You were just trying to scare people back into reality.

We're certainly not trying to scare anyone watching your program.

Many of the young people around him, he said, seemed lost, going to school without learning and spending their time trying to scare one another.

What was she doing, trying to scare him into going away?

So I didn't want to try to scare her now.

And now he was trying to scare her into doing nothing about it.

Why do you keep trying to scare Mark and me?

Trying to scare me isn't going to do you any good.

For one thing, simply trying to scare young people does not work.